2 Corinthians 6:14

Believers must not be bound together with unbelievers in ways that compromise their faith, since righteousness and wickedness have no true partnership. God's people are to maintain spiritual separation.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Cor 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
• 1 Cor 10:21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• Eph 5:6–14Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
• Lev 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.
• 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Ps 26:4–5I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
• Deut 22:9–11Do 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.
• Ps 139:21–22Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
• Eph 4:17–20So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• 1 Th 5:4–8But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
• 1 Cor 5:9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
• Ps 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
• Deut 7:2–3and 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.
• Prov 22:24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
• 1 Kgs 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.
• Prov 29:27An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
• Mal 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
• Phil 2:15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
• Rom 13:12–14The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• Ezra 9:11–12that 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.
• 1 Jn 1:5–7And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
• Mal 2:15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
• Ps 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
• 1 Pet 4:2–4Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• 1 Cor 7:39A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
• Ps 101:3–5I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
• Ps 44:20–21If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
• Exod 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.
• Ps 26:9–10Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
• Ezra 9:1–2After 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.
• 2 Chr 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.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
• Neh 13:1–3At 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,
• Ezra 10:19They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
• Prov 8:18–19With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
• 1 Sam 5:2–3carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
• 1 Jn 3:12–14Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

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