2 Corinthians 6:14

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“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?”

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“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Corinthians 6:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 34:16And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
  2. Leviticus 19:19You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
  4. Deuteronomy 22:9Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
  5. Deuteronomy 22:10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
  6. 1 Samuel 5:2carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
  7. 1 Kings 18:21Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.
  8. 2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
  9. Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
  10. Ezra 9:11that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
  11. Ezra 10:19Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
  12. Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
  13. Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
  14. Psalms 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
  15. Psalms 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
  16. Psalms 26:9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
  17. Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  18. Psalms 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
  19. Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
  20. Psalms 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
  21. Psalms 139:21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
  22. Proverbs 8:18With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
  23. Proverbs 22:24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
  24. Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

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