2 Corinthians 6:14

King James Version (KJV)

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Translations

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Amplified Bible

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living {and} right standing with God with iniquity {and} lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - American Standard Version

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Darby Bible

Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - English Standard Version

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - La Biblia de las Americas

No estéis unidos en yugo desigual con los incrédulos, pues ¿qué asociaciòn tienen la justicia y la iniquidad? ¿O qué comuniòn la luz con las tinieblas?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Message

Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way:

   "I’ll live in them, move into them;
      I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people.
   So leave the corruption and compromise;
      leave it for good," says God.
   "Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.
      I want you all for myself.
   I’ll be a Father to you;
      you’ll be sons and daughters to me."
   The Word of the Master, God.

2 Corinthians 6:14 - New American Standard Bible

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

No estén unidos en yugo desigual con los incrédulos, pues ¿qué asociaciòn tienen la justicia y la iniquidad? ¿O qué comuniòn la luz con las tinieblas?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - World English Bible

Don`t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Young's Living Translation

Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Additional Comments

This does not say do not associate with unbelievers, but it does say do not be coupled with them. This implies in marriage, in business, in any important partnership in your life. Verse 16 compares it to contrasting the temple of God with idols - they do not fit together. You will have trouble if you do.

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