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 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• 1 Cor 10:21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• Eph 5:6–14Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• Lev 19:19“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
• 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Ps 26:4–5I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
• Deut 22:9–11You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
• Ps 139:21–22Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
• Eph 4:17–20This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• 1 Th 5:4–8But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
• 1 Cor 5:9I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
• Ps 106:35but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
• Deut 7:2–3and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
• Prov 22:24Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
• 1 Kgs 18:21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
• Prov 29:27A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
• Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
• John 15:18–19If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Phil 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• Rom 13:12–14The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
• Ezra 9:11–12which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
• 1 Jn 1:5–7This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• Mal 2:15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
• Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
• 1 Pet 4:2–4that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• 1 Cor 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
• Ps 101:3–5I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
• Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
• Exod 34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
• Ps 26:9–10Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
• Ezra 9:1–2Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu 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 Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
• Ps 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
• Neh 13:1–3On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
• Ezra 10:19They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
• Prov 8:18–19With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
• 1 Sam 5:2–3The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
• 1 Jn 3:12–14unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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