2 Corinthians 6:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?

Cross References

Genesis 24:3

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

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu 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 the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

Ezra 10:19

They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

Psalm 119:63

I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.

Psalm 16:3

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

Exodus 34:16

and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friends with those given to anger, and do not associate with hotheads,

Proverbs 29:27

The unjust are an abomination to the righteous, but the upright are an abomination to the wicked.

Leviticus 19:19

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.

John 7:7

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

Acts 4:23

After they were released, they went to their own people and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

1 Corinthians 10:21

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

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 5:9

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

1 Corinthians 6:6

Instead, brothers and sisters go to court against one another, and this before the unbelievers.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.