Parallel Verses
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?
The Emphasized Bible
Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath 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
In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.
14
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."
Psalm 139:21-22
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Ephesians 5:6-14
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
"You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." And the people did not answer him a word.
John 15:18-19
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people--
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 4:2-4
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
Leviticus 19:19
"You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
1 Samuel 5:2-3
Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
2 Chronicles 19:2
But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.
Ezra 9:1-2
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:11-12
which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
Ezra 10:19
They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Nehemiah 13:1-3
On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Nehemiah 13:23-26
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Psalm 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
Psalm 26:4-5
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
Psalm 26:9-10
Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
Psalm 44:20-21
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Psalm 101:3-5
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Psalm 106:35
but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Psalm 119:63
I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.
Proverbs 8:18-19
Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 22:24
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Acts 4:23
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Romans 13:12-14
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Ephesians 4:17-20
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
Philippians 2:15
that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
1 John 1:5-7
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 3:12-14
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
Exodus 34:16
and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.