Thematic Bible: What cannot be served together

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? And what harmony can Christ have with Belial? [Note: "Belial" means "worthlessness" and was used for referring to the devil]. Or, what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? And what agreement is there between a temple of God and idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said [Lev. 26:12], "I will live in them and walk among them [i.e., among His people]; and I will be their God and they will be my people."

No person can serve two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other, or else he will cling to the one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and material things [at the same time]. Verse ConceptsBeing In Debtdoubt, results ofdouble mindednessTwoDedication In NtCompromise, ForbiddenGospel, Responses ToIndecisionLoyaltyMisersMoney, Attitudes ToRiches, Dangers OfService To GodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServanthood, In SocietySlavery, SpiritualTreasureCovetousness, Nature ofBeing DevoutInstabilityMaterialismMoneyDivided HeartsFinancial AdviceClinging To PeopleServing PeopleDespising PeopleTwo PeopleDrawbacks To RichesBeing Devoted to GodServingHateWorry And StressServing GodServing The ChurchSaving Money

No person can serve two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other, or else he will cling to the one [i.e., as a close friend] and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and material things [at the same time].'" Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofGospel, Responses ToIndecisionLoyaltyMoney, Attitudes ToRiches, Dangers OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServants, BadSlavery, SpiritualTreasuredouble mindednessUnquestioning ServiceServing PeopleDespising PeopleTwo PeopleNot Serving GodServing God

[Certainly not!] But I am saying that the Gentile sacrifices are [really] offered to evil spirits and not to God. And I do not want you to have fellowship with evil spirits. You cannot drink [both] the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits [i.e., and still be acceptable to God]. You cannot share in [both] the Lord's table and the table of evil spirits [and still be acceptable to God]. Or, are we [trying to] make the Lord jealous [by doing this]? [Do we think] we are stronger that He is?