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2 Corinthians 6

2 Cor. 6:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Be ye
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
y not
me (Greek #3361)
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas 3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
KJV usage: any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also 3362, 3363, 3364, 3372, 3373, 3375, 3378.
Pronounce: may
Origin: a primary particle of qualified negation (whereas 3756 expresses an absolute denial)
unequally yoked together
heterozugeo (Greek #2086)
to yoke up differently, i.e. (figuratively) to associate discordantly
KJV usage: unequally yoke together with.
Pronounce: het-er-od-zoog-eh'-o
Origin: from a compound of 2087 and 2218
with unbelievers
apistos (Greek #571)
(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing)
KJV usage: that believeth not, faithless, incredible thing, infidel, unbeliever(-ing).
Pronounce: ap'-is-tos
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and 4103
: for
gar (Greek #1063)
properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
KJV usage: and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.
Pronounce: gar
Origin: a primary particle
what
tis (Greek #5101)
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
KJV usage: every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Pronounce: tis
Origin: probably emphatic of 5100
fellowship
metoche (Greek #3352)
participation, i.e. intercourse
KJV usage: fellowship.
Pronounce: met-okh-ay'
Origin: from 3348
hath righteousness
dikaiosune (Greek #1343)
equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification
KJV usage: righteousness.
Pronounce: dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay
Origin: from 1342
with
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
unrighteousness
anomia (Greek #458)
illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness
KJV usage: iniquity, X transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.
Pronounce: an-om-ee'-ah
Origin: from 459
? and
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
what
tis (Greek #5101)
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
KJV usage: every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Pronounce: tis
Origin: probably emphatic of 5100
communion
koinonia (Greek #2842)
partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction
KJV usage: (to) communicate(-ation), communion, (contri-)distribution, fellowship.
Pronounce: koy-nohn-ee'-ah
Origin: from 2844
hath light
phos (Greek #5457)
luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: fire, light.
Pronounce: foce
Origin: from an obsolete φάω (to shine or make manifest, especially by rays; compare 5316, 5346)
with
pros (Greek #4314)
a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e. pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of, i.e. near to; usually with the accusative case, the place, time, occasion, or respect, which is the destination of the relation, i.e. whither or for which it is predicated)
KJV usage: about, according to , against, among, at, because of, before, between, (where-)by, for, X at thy house, in, for intent, nigh unto, of, which pertain to, that, to (the end that), X together, to (you) -ward, unto, with(-in). In the comparative case, it denotes essentially the same applications, namely, motion towards, accession to, or nearness at.
Pronounce: pros
Origin: a strengthened form of 4253
darkness
skotos (Greek #4655)
shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: darkness.
Pronounce: skot'-os
Origin: from the base of 4639
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Deut. 7:2‑3• 2And 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 show mercy unto them:
 3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. (Deut. 7:2‑3)
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1 Cor. 7:39• 39The 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. (1 Cor. 7:39)

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Communion,
Darkness,
Fellowship,
Light,
Righteousness,
Unbeliever,
Yoke

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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unequally.
Ex. 34:16• 16And 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. (Ex. 34:16)
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Lev. 19:19• 19Ye 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. (Lev. 19:19)
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Deut. 7:2‑3• 2And 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 show mercy unto them:
 3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. (Deut. 7:2‑3)
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Deut. 22:9‑11• 9Thou 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.
 10Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
 11Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deut. 22:9‑11)
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Ezra 9:1‑2,11‑12• 1Now 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.
 2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
 11Which 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.
 12Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. (Ezra 9:1‑2,11‑12)
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Ezra 10:19• 19And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass. (Ezra 10:19)
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Neh. 13:1‑3,23‑26• 1On 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;
 2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
 3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
 23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
 24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
 25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
 26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. (Neh. 13:1‑3,23‑26)
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Psa. 106:35• 35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. (Psa. 106:35)
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Prov. 22:24• 24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: (Prov. 22:24)
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Mal. 2:11,15• 11Judah 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.
 15And 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. (Mal. 2:11,15)
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1 Cor. 5:9• 9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (1 Cor. 5:9)
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1 Cor. 7:39• 39The 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. (1 Cor. 7:39)
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1 Cor. 15:33• 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33)
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James 4:4• 4Ye 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. (James 4:4)
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1 Sam. 5:2‑3• 2When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
 3And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. (1 Sam. 5:2‑3)
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1 Kings 18:21• 21And 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. (1 Kings 18:21)
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2 Chron. 19:2• 2And 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. (2 Chron. 19:2)
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Psa. 16:3• 3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. (Psa. 16:3)
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Psa. 26:4‑5,9‑10• 4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
 9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
 10In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. (Psa. 26:4‑5,9‑10)
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Psa. 44:20‑21• 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
 21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:20‑21)
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Psa. 101:3‑5• 3I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
 4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
 5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. (Psa. 101:3‑5)
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Psa. 119:63• 63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. (Psa. 119:63)
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Psa. 139:21‑22• 21Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
 22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. (Psa. 139:21‑22)
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Prov. 29:27• 27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. (Prov. 29:27)
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John 7:7• 7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. (John 7:7)
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John 15:18‑19• 18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
 19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:18‑19)
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Acts 4:23• 23And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. (Acts 4:23)
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1 Cor. 10:21• 21Ye 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. (1 Cor. 10:21)
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Eph. 5:6‑11• 6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
 7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
 8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
 9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
 10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Eph. 5:6‑11)
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1 John 3:12‑14• 12Not 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.
 13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
 14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. (1 John 3:12‑14)
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Prov. 8:18‑19• 18Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
 19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. (Prov. 8:18‑19)
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Rom. 13:12‑14• 12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
 13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
 14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. (Rom. 13:12‑14)
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Eph. 4:17‑20• 17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
 18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
 19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
 20But ye have not so learned Christ; (Eph. 4:17‑20)
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Eph. 5:8‑14• 8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
 9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
 10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
 12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
 13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
 14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Eph. 5:8‑14)
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Phil. 2:15• 15That 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; (Phil. 2:15)
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1 Thess. 5:4‑8• 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
 6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thess. 5:4‑8)
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1 Peter 2:9‑10• 9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:9‑10)
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1 Peter 4:2‑4• 2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
 3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
 4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: (1 Peter 4:2‑4)
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1 John 1:5‑7• 5This 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.
 6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:5‑7)
• The Christian, whose portion is the glory of Christ-who has his world, his life, his true associations, there where Christ has entered in-should not either; nor can he, as a Christian, put himself under the same yoke with those who can have only worldly motives, to draw the chariot of life in a path common to both. (“2 Corinthians 6” by J.N. Darby)
• 1 Cor. 7 is the true and direct weapon for the question of marriage; our passage has a far larger bearing. It is the prohibition of every evil connection for a Christian. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:14-16” by W. Kelly)
• The figure with which the paragraph opens is obviously taken from the law which forbade yoking together heterogeneous animals, as the ox and the ass in plowing. (Deut. 22:10.) It is not now the Jew severed from the Gentile, but the Christian separate from the world in every shape and degree. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:14-16” by W. Kelly)
• First the apostle points to the radical difference of principles, low or high, righteousness and lawlessness, light and darkness. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:14-16” by W. Kelly)
• An unequal yoke is anything that links the believer with an unbeliever in a common purpose—whether it is social, commercial, religious, marital, or political. (“Paul's Appeal to the Corinthians: 2 Corinthians 6:11-7:5” by B. Anstey)
• If blessed with Christ for eternity, you cannot without sin have relations with the enemy in time....The figure with which the paragraph opens is obviously taken from the law which forbade yoking together heterogeneous animals, as the ox and the ass in plowing. (Deut. 22: 10.) It is not now the Jew severed from the Gentile, but the Christian separate from the world in every shape and degree. (article #680850)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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"Unequally," as in A.V., is a consequence, but not stated in the text, which says "diversely," referring to the Levitical law, which forbade different animals to be yoked together, Deut. 22.10.

W. Kelly Translation

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Be not diversely yokeda with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness?

WK Translation Notes

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This opening phrase is very compressed, being a kind of pregnant construction. The sense is plainly a heterogeneous yoke.