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 15:33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• 1 Cor 10:21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
• Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• Eph 5:6–14Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
• Lev 19:19Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
• 1 Pet 2:9–10But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• Deut 22:9–11Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
• Ps 139:21–22Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
• Eph 4:17–20This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• 1 Th 5:4–8But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
• 1 Cor 5:9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
• Ps 106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
• Deut 7:2–3And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
• Prov 22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
• 1 Kgs 18:21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
• Prov 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
• Mal 2:11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
• John 15:18–19If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• Phil 2:15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
• Rom 13:12–14The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Ezra 9:11–12Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
• 1 Jn 1:5–7This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• Mal 2:15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
• Ps 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
• 1 Pet 4:2–4That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 1 Cor 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
• Ps 101:3–5I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
• Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
• Exod 34:16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
• Ps 26:9–10Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• Ezra 9:1–2Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• 2 Chr 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
• Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
• Neh 13:1–3On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
• Ezra 10:19And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
• Prov 8:18–19Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
• 1 Sam 5:2–3When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
• 1 Jn 3:12–14Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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