2 Corinthians 6:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?

Cross References

Genesis 24:3

in the name of the LORD, who rules heaven and earth, that you won't choose a wife for my son Isaac from the people here in the land of Canaan.

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah stood in front of them and said, “How much longer will you try to have things both ways? If the LORD is God, worship him! But if Baal is God, worship him!” The people did not say a word.

2 Chronicles 19:2

But the prophet Jehu son of Hanani met him and said: By helping that wicked Ahab, you have made friends with someone who hates the LORD. Now the LORD God is angry with you!

Psalm 106:35

Instead they were friendly with those foreigners and followed their customs.

Psalm 119:63

I choose as my friends everyone who worships you and follows your teachings.

Psalm 16:3

Your people are wonderful, and they make me happy,

Exodus 34:16

Your men will even marry their women and be influenced to worship their gods.

Proverbs 22:24

Don't make friends with anyone who has a bad temper.

Proverbs 29:27

Good people and criminals can't stand each other.

Leviticus 19:19

Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don't plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.

Malachi 2:11

You people in Judah and Jerusalem have been unfaithful to the LORD. You have disgraced the temple that he loves, and you have committed the disgusting sin of worshipping other gods.

Malachi 2:15

Didn't God create you to become like one person with your wife? And why did he do this? It was so you would have children, and then lead them to become God's people. Don't ever be unfaithful to your wife.

John 7:7

The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things.

Acts 4:23

As soon as Peter and John had been set free, they went back and told the others everything that the chief priests and the leaders had said to them.

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink from the cup of demons and still drink from the Lord's cup. You cannot eat at the table of demons and still eat at the Lord's table.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.

1 Corinthians 5:9

In my other letter I told you not to have anything to do with immoral people.

1 Corinthians 6:6

Why should one of you take another to be tried by unbelievers?

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife should stay married to her husband until he dies. Then she is free to marry again, but only to a man who is a follower of the Lord.

Philippians 2:15

Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything that they can say is wrong. Try to shine as lights among the people of this world,

James 4:4

You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.