Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Holman Bible
Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness?
International Standard Version
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
A Conservative Version
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
American Standard Version
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Amplified
Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
An Understandable Version
Do not team up with unbelievers [i.e., in close relationships, such as marriage, etc.]. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or, what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Anderson New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness?
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
Common New Testament
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?
Darby Translation
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
Godbey New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?
Goodspeed New Testament
Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?
John Wesley New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Julia Smith Translation
Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?
King James 2000
Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?
Modern King James verseion
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?
Montgomery New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?
NET Bible
Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
New Heart English Bible
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Noyes New Testament
Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?
Sawyer New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?
Webster
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Weymouth New Testament
Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
Williams New Testament
Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?
World English Bible
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Worrell New Testament
Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Worsley New Testament
Be not unsuitably connected with infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Youngs Literal Translation
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Forbidden
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Unbecoming in those called saints
Children » Who are the children of God
Communion » What cannot have communion together
Communion of saints » Opposed to communion with the wicked
Communion with God » Holiness essential to
Family » Who are members of the lord’s family
Marriage » Wives among the israelites must be israelites
Righteousness » Has no fellowship with unrighteousness
Separation » Separating yourself from unclean things
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Service » What cannot be served together
Interlinear
Ginomai
me
Tis
τίς
Tis
Usage: 344
πρός
Pros
unto, to, with, for, against, among, at, not tr, , vr to
Usage: 412
Anomia
De
Koinonia
Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 6:14
Devotionals containing 2 Corinthians 6:14
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:14
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 6:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Become Unevenly Yoked With Unbelievers
13 Howbeit, by way of the like recompense - as, unto children, I speak, be enlarged, even, ye. 14 Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceiving yourselves, - evil communications corrupt gentle manners: -
Psalm 139:21-22
Do I not hate, them who hate thee, O Yahweh? And loathe, them who rise up against thee?
Ephesians 5:6-14
Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy:
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and Yahweh thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them, thou shalt devote them to destruction, thou shalt not solemnise with them a covenant neither shalt thou shew them favour;
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two sorts of seed, - lest the fulness of the seed which thou sowest, and the increase of thy vineyard be profaned.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah drew near unto all the people, and said - How long are ye limping on the two divided opinions? If, Yahweh, be GOD, follow, him, but, if, Baal, follow, him. But the people answered him, not a word.
John 15:18-19
If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.
1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote a unto you in my letter - not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators; -
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife, is bound for as long a time as her husband is living; but, if the husband have fallen asleep, she is, free, to be married unto whom she pleaseth, - only, in the Lord;
1 Corinthians 10:21
Ye cannot be drinking - a cup of the Lord, and a cup of demons; ye cannot be partaking of, a table of the Lord, and a table of demons.
James 4:4
Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself.
1 Peter 2:9-10
But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous light: -
1 Peter 4:2-4
To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.
Leviticus 19:19
My statutes, shall ye observe, Thy beasts, shalt thou not cause to breed in two kinds, Thy field, shalt thou not sow with two sorts of seed, - And a garment woven of diverse threads, shalt thou not suffer to come upon thee.
1 Samuel 5:2-3
And, when the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, - and placed it by the side of Dagon.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And there came out to meet him, Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, who said unto King Jehoshaphat, Unto the lawless, was it right to give help? and, on them who hate Yahweh, to bestow thy love? For this cause, therefore, is there wrath against thee, from before Yahweh;
Ezra 9:1-2
Now, when these things were ended, the rulers drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not kept themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, - in view of their abominations-even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
Ezra 9:11-12
which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, As for the land which, ye, are entering to possess, an impure land, it is, with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, - with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to the other, with their uncleanness.
Ezra 10:19
and they gave their hand, that they would put away their wives, - and, being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Nehemiah 13:1-3
On that day, a portion, was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, - and it was found written therein, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not enter into the convocation of God, unto times age-abiding;
Nehemiah 13:23-26
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Psalm 16:3
It belongeth unto the holy ones, whom, in his own land, Yahweh, ennobleth, In whom is all his delight
Psalm 26:4-5
I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;
Psalm 26:9-10
Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life;
Psalm 44:20-21
If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
Psalm 101:3-5
I will not set before mine eyes, a vile thing, - The doing of them who fall away, I hate, It shall not cleave unto me;
Psalm 106:35
But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;
Psalm 119:63
Companion, am I, to all who revere thee, and to them who keep thy precepts.
Proverbs 8:18-19
Riches and honour, are with me, lordly wealth, and righteousness;
Proverbs 22:24
Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:
Proverbs 29:27
An abomination to the righteous, is the man of perversity, and, an abomination to the lawless, is a man of straightforward way.
Malachi 2:11
Judah, hath dealt treacherously, and, an abomination, hath been wrought in Israel, and in Jerusalem, - for Judah, had profaned, the holy place of Yahweh, which he had loved, and hath taken to himself the daughter of a foreign GOD.
Malachi 2:15
Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but, me, it hateth, because, I, bear witness concerning it, that, the works thereof, are, wicked.
Acts 4:23
But, when they had been let go, they came unto their own friends , and told as many things as, unto them, the High-priests and Elders, had said.
Romans 13:12-14
The night, is far spent and, the day, hath drawn near; let us, then, cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light, -
Ephesians 4:17-20
This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord: - that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk - in the vanity of their minds,
Philippians 2:15
In order that ye may become faultless and inviolate, children of God, blameless amidst a crooked and perverted generation, amongst whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
But, ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that, the day, upon you, as upon thieves, should lay hold;
1 John 1:5-7
And this is the message which we have heard from him, and are reporting unto you, - that, God, is, light, and in him is, no darkness at all.
1 John 3:12-14
Not just as, Cain, was, of the wicked one, and slew his brother! And, for what cause, slew he him? Because, his works, were, wicked, whereas, those of his brother, were, righteous.
Exodus 34:16
And thou wilt take of his daughters for thy sons, - And his daughters will go unchastely after their gods, And will cause thy sons to go unchastely after their gods.