What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
Parallel translations
- KJV And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
- BSB What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
- NKJV And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
- NASB Or what harmony does Christ have with Belial, or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?
- NLT What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
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Cross-references · 9
- 1 Cor 10:20–21But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
- 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 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.
- 1 Sam 5:2–4The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
- Acts 5:14More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
- Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
- Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
- Ezra 4:3But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
- 1 Tim 5:8But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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