14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Focused Passage
2 Corinthians 6:14
Receiving Grace, Enduring Ministry, and Holy Separation as God's Temple
Paul pleads with the Corinthians not to receive God's grace in vain, commends apostolic ministry through suffering and Spirit-formed integrity, opens his heart and calls for reciprocal affection, then commands holy separation from idolatrous unbelief because the church is the temple and family of the living God.
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Verse 14
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 15:33 Classic cross-references Amos 3:3 Classic cross-references 1 Corinthians 10:21 Classic cross-references James 4:4 Classic cross-references Romans 12:2 Classic cross-references 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 OliveGrove study links 1 Peter 1:14-16 OliveGrove study links Ephesians 2:18-22 OliveGrove study links
Original words
{Do} not Μὴ G3361 Adverb be γίνεσθε G1096 Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural unequally yoked ἑτεροζυγοῦντες G2086 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural with unbelievers ἀπίστοις G571 Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural For γὰρ G1063 Conjunction what τίς G5101 Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular partnership [can] μετοχὴ G3352 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular righteousness δικαιοσύνῃ G1343 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular [have with] καὶ G2532 Conjunction wickedness ἀνομίᾳ G458 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Or ἢ G2228 Conjunction what τίς G5101 Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular fellowship κοινωνία G2842 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular [does] light [have] φωτὶ G5457 Noun - Dative Neuter Singular with πρὸς G4314 Preposition darkness σκότος G4655 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular