2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Thou and Ye
- ye more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Scofield Notes
- righteousness(See Scofield "Rom 10:10").
- unrighteousnessSin. (See Scofield "Rom 3:23").
Matthew Henry
- By affection for them, And by earnest concern, that they might have no fellowship with unbelievers and idolatersIt is wrong for believers to join with the wicked and profane. The word unbeliever applies to all destitute of true faith. True pastors will caution their...
Thompson Chains
- Evil Associations (1)Last of 10 links
- BelieversSee the chain from John 2:22 · 16 links
- Separation (4)See the chain from Isaiah 52:11 · 6 links
Parallel Passages
- Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
- 1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
- 1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
- Ephesians 5:6–14 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. …
- Deuteronomy 22:9–11 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. …
- James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- Psalms 139:21–22 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:4–8 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. …
- 1 Peter 2:9–10 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: …
- 1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
- Ezra 9:11–12 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. …
- Psalms 26:4–5 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. …
- Malachi 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
- Ephesians 4:17–20 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …
- 1 Peter 4:2–4 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. …
- Exodus 34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
- Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
- Deuteronomy 7:2–3 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: …
- 1 Samuel 5:2–3 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. …
- Ezra 10:19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
- Nehemiah 13:23–26 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: …
- Psalms 16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
- Psalms 26:9–10 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: …
- Psalms 44:20–21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; …
- Psalms 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
- Proverbs 29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
- Malachi 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
- John 15:18–19 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. …
- Acts 4:23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
- Romans 13:12–14 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. …
- 1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
- 1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
- Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- 2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
- Ezra 9:1–2 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. …
- Nehemiah 13:1–3 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; …
- Psalms 101:3–5 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. …
- Psalms 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
- Proverbs 8:18–19 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. …
- Proverbs 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
- 1 John 1:5–7 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. …
- 1 John 3:12–14 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. …
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Topics
Timeline
- Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 60 · The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Greek and Strong’s
- Be ye γίνεσθε ginesthe γίνομαι Verb · present middle imperative, second person plural
- not Μὴ Mē μή Adverb
- unequally yoked together ἑτεροζυγοῦντες heterozygountes ἑτεροζυγέω Verb · present active participle, nominative masculine plural
- with unbelievers ἀπίστοις apistois ἄπιστος Adjective · dative masculine plural
- for γὰρ gar γάρ Conjunction
- what τίς tis τίς Article · nominative feminine singular
- fellowship μετοχὴ metochē μετοχή Noun · nominative feminine singular
- hath righteousness δικαιοσύνῃ dikaiosynē δικαιοσύνη Noun · dative feminine singular
- with καὶ kai καί Conjunction
- unrighteousness ἀνομίᾳ anomia ἀνομία Noun · dative feminine singular
- and δὲ de δέ Conjunction
- what τίς tis τίς Article · nominative feminine singular
- communion κοινωνία koinōnia κοινωνία Noun · nominative feminine singular
- hath light φωτὶ phōti φῶς Noun · dative neuter singular
- with πρὸς pros πρός Preposition
- darkness σκότος skotos σκότος Noun · accusative neuter singular
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