2 Corinthians 6:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Cross References

Genesis 24:3

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you straddle the issue? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the seer, son of Hanani, went out to meet King Jehoshaphat and said to him: “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? For this reason, wrath is upon you from the Lord.

Ezra 10:19

They pledged themselves to dismiss their wives, and as a guilt offering for their guilt they gave a ram from the flock.

Psalm 106:35

But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways.

Psalm 119:63

I am the friend of all who fear you, of all who observe your precepts.

Psalm 16:3

As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are noble, in whom is all my delight.

Exodus 34:16

And when you take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they will make your sons do the same.

Proverbs 22:24

Do not be friendly with hotheads, nor associate with the wrathful,

Proverbs 29:27

An abomination to the just, the evildoer; an abomination to the wicked, one whose way is straight.

Leviticus 19:19

Keep my statutes: do not breed any of your domestic animals with others of a different species; do not sow a field of yours with two different kinds of seed; and do not put on a garment woven with two different kinds of thread.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has broken faith; an abominable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the Lord’s holy place, which he loves, and has married a daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with flesh and spirit? And what does the One require? Godly offspring! You should be on guard, then, for your life, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify to it that its works are evil.

Acts 4:23

After their release they went back to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them.

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be led astray: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

1 Corinthians 5:9

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

1 Corinthians 6:6

But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whomever she wishes, provided that it be in the Lord.

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like lights in the world,

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.