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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• 2{i}and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them.{/i}
 3{i}And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;{/i} (Deut. 7:2‑3)
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1 Cor. 7:39• 39A wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but should the husband have fallen asleep, she is free 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,
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unequally.
Ex. 34:16• 16{i}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.{/i} (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 two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together. (Lev. 19:19)
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Deut. 7:2‑3• 2{i}and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them.{/i}
 3{i}And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;{/i} (Deut. 7:2‑3)
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Deut. 22:9‑11• 9{i}Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with seed of two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited.{/i}
 10{i}Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.{/i}
 11{i}Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material, woven of wool and linen together.{/i} (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 head of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
 11{i}which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.{/i}
 12{i}Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.{/i} (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 forever;
 2because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, {i}and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing{/i}.
 3{i}And{/i} 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, {i}and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people{/i}.
 25And I contended with them, {i}and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair{/i}, 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.
 26{i}Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.{/i} (Neh. 13:1‑3,23‑26)
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Psa. 106:35• 35But they mingled with the nations{HR}And learned their doings. (Psa. 106:35)
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Prov. 22:24• 24Make no friendship with an angry man,{HR}And go not with a furious man; (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 Jehovah 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 have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators; (1 Cor. 5:9)
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1 Cor. 7:39• 39A wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; but should the husband have fallen asleep, she is free 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• 4Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted 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 Jehovah. 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 Jehovah 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• 2{i}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 Jehovah? Therefore is wrath upon thee from Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 19:2)
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Psa. 16:3• 3Unto the saints which are upon the earth,{HR}[Even] them, and the excellent,{HR}All my delight [is] in them. (Psa. 16:3)
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Psa. 26:4‑5,9‑10• 4I have not sat with vain men,{HR}And with dissemblers I go not in.
 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers,{HR}And with the wicked I sit not.
 9Gather not my soul with sinners,{HR}And my life with bloody men.
 10In whose hands [is] an evil device,{HR}And their right hand is filled with a bribe. (Psa. 26:4‑5,9‑10)
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Psa. 44:20‑21• 20If we have forgotten the name of our God,{HR}And have stretched out our hands to a strange god,
 21Will not God search this out?{HR}For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:20‑21)
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Psa. 101:3‑5• 3I will set nothing of Belial before mine eyes;{HR}I hate the doing of those that turn aside ;{HR}It shall not cleave to me.
 4A perverse heart shall depart from me:{HR}Evil I will not know.
 5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour,{HR}Him I will cut off;{HR}The lofty of eyes and proud of heart,{HR}Him will I not suffer. (Psa. 101:3‑5)
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Psa. 119:63• 63A companion [am] {i}I{/i} to all who fear thee,{HR}And to those who keep thy precepts. (Psa. 119:63)
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Psa. 139:21‑22• 21Do not I hate those that hate thee, Jehovah?{HR}And those that rise against thee, do not I loathe?
 22(With) perfect hatred I hate them;{HR}For enemies they are to me. (Psa. 139:21‑22)
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Prov. 29:27• 27{i}An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous;{HR}And he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked [man] .{/i} (Prov. 29:27)
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John 7:7• 7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil. (John 7:7)
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John 15:18‑19• 18If the world hateth you, know that me it hath hated before you.
 19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account doth the world hate you. (John 15:18‑19)
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Acts 4:23• 23But being let go they came unto their own [company], and reported all that the chief priests and the elders said unto them. (Acts 4:23)
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1 Cor. 10:21• 21Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and a cup of demons; ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of a table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:21)
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Eph. 5:6‑11• 6Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
 7Be not therefore fellow-partakers with them;
 8for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light
 9(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
 10proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather also reprove; (Eph. 5:6‑11)
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1 John 3:12‑14• 12not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and for what did he slay him? Because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.
 13Wonder not, brethren, if the world hateth you.
 14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not the brother abideth in death. (1 John 3:12‑14)
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Prov. 8:18‑19• 18Riches and honour [are] with me;{HR}Durable wealth and righteousness.
 19My fruit [is] better than gold, yea than pure gold;{HR}And my revenue than choice silver. (Prov. 8:18‑19)
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Rom. 13:12‑14• 12The night is far spent, and the day is near: let us therefore put off the deeds of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
 13As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy;
 14but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and take no forethought of the flesh with a view to lusts. (Rom. 13:12‑14)
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Eph. 4:17‑20• 17This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,
 18being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart,
 19who, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness.
 20But ye have not thus learnt the Christ, (Eph. 4:17‑20)
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Eph. 5:8‑14• 8for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light
 9(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
 10proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
 11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather also reprove;
 12for the things in secret done by them it is shameful even to speak of,
 13but all of them, when reproved by the light, are made manifest; for everything that maketh manifest is light.
 14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise out of [the] dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:8‑14)
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Phil. 2:15• 15that ye may be blameless and sincere, irreproachable children of God amidst a crooked and perverse generation, 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 the day should overtake you as a thief;
 5for ye all are sons of light and sons of day: we are not of night nor of darkness.
 6So, then, let us not sleep as [do] the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
 7For they that sleep sleep by night, and they that are drunk drink by night;
 8but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and hope of salvation as helmet. (1 Thess. 5:4‑8)
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1 Peter 2:9‑10• 9But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set out the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light;
 10who once [were] no people but now God's people, the unpitied, but now pitied. (1 Peter 2:9‑10)
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1 Peter 4:2‑4• 2no longer to live the rest of time in flesh to men's lusts but to God's will.
 3For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
 4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:2‑4)
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1 John 1:5‑7• 5And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to 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 with one 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)
• 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.