2 Corinthians 6:14

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Do not team up with unbelievers [i.e., in close relationships, such as marriage, etc.] For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or, what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be fooled; bad company ruins good moral behavior.

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink [both] the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits [i.e., and still be acceptable to God]. You cannot share in [both] the Lord’s Table and the table of evil spirits [and still be acceptable to God].

James 4:4

You people who have become unfaithful to God, do you not know that being [intimate] friends with the world [of sin] means hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever determines to be an [intimate] friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Philippians 2:15

so that you will be without just blame and innocent [of wrongdoing], children of God without fault in the middle of a crooked and perverted generation of people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky,

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about its deeds, that they are evil.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound [i.e., to stay married] for as long as her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants; [but it must be] only in the Lord [i.e., he must be a faithful Christian].

Acts 4:23

So, after Peter and John were released, they went [back to the other disciples] and reported everything the leading priests and elders [of the Jews] had said to them.

1 Corinthians 6:6

But [instead], a brother goes to court against his brother, and that in front of an unbelieving [judge]!