Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
International Standard Version
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
A Conservative Version
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
American Standard Version
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Amplified
Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
An Understandable Version
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?
Anderson New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness?
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
Common New Testament
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?
Darby Translation
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
Godbey New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?
Goodspeed New Testament
Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?
John Wesley New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Julia Smith Translation
Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?
King James 2000
Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?
Modern King James verseion
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?
Montgomery New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?
NET Bible
Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
New Heart English Bible
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Noyes New Testament
Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?
Sawyer New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?
The Emphasized Bible
Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?
Webster
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Weymouth New Testament
Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
Williams New Testament
Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?
World English Bible
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Worrell New Testament
Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Worsley New Testament
Be not unsuitably connected with infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Youngs Literal Translation
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Forbidden
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Unbecoming in those called saints
Children » Who are the children of God
Communion » What cannot have communion together
Communion of saints » Opposed to communion with the wicked
Communion with God » Holiness essential to
Family » Who are members of the lord’s family
Marriage » Wives among the israelites must be israelites
Righteousness » Has no fellowship with unrighteousness
Separation » Separating yourself from unclean things
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Service » What cannot be served together
Interlinear
Ginomai
me
Tis
τίς
Tis
Usage: 344
πρός
Pros
unto, to, with, for, against, among, at, not tr, , vr to
Usage: 412
Anomia
De
Koinonia
Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 6:14
Devotionals containing 2 Corinthians 6:14
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:14
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 6:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Become Unevenly Yoked With Unbelievers
13
I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.
14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
Psalm 139:21-22
and detest those who rebel against You?
Ephesians 5:6-14
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.
1 Kings 18:21
Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions?
John 15:18-19
1 Corinthians 5:9
I wrote to you in a letter not to associate
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound
1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
James 4:4
Adulteresses!
1 Peter 2:9-10
a holy nation,
so that you may proclaim the praises
of the One who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light.
1 Peter 4:2-4
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires,
Leviticus 19:19
“You are to keep My statutes. You must not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.
1 Samuel 5:2-3
brought it into the temple of Dagon
2 Chronicles 19:2
Then Jehu
Ezra 9:1-2
After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said: “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves
Ezra 9:11-12
You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: “The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.
Ezra 10:19
Nehemiah 13:1-3
At that time
Nehemiah 13:23-26
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Psalm 16:3
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.
Psalm 26:4-5
or associate with hypocrites.
Psalm 26:9-10
or my life along with men of bloodshed
Psalm 44:20-21
and spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Psalm 101:3-5
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.
Psalm 106:35
and adopted their ways.
Psalm 119:63
to those who keep Your precepts.
Proverbs 8:18-19
lasting wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 22:24
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,
Proverbs 29:27
and one whose way is upright
is detestable to the wicked.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable
Malachi 2:15
Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek?
John 7:7
Acts 4:23
After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Romans 13:12-14
The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near,
Ephesians 4:17-20
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.
Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
But you, brothers, are not in the dark, for this day to overtake you like a thief.
1 John 1:5-7
Now this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light,
1 John 3:12-14
unlike Cain,
Exodus 34:16
Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.