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For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? <a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/6.htm">New Living Translation</a> Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? <a href="/esv/2_corinthians/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/blb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/6.htm">King James Bible</a> Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? <a href="/nkjv/2_corinthians/6.htm">New King James Version</a> Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? <a href="/nasb_/2_corinthians/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness? <a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/nasb77/2_corinthians/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/lsb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/amp/2_corinthians/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? <a href="/csb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/hcsb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/asv/2_corinthians/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? <a href="/cev/2_corinthians/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same? <a href="/erv/2_corinthians/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? <a href="/gwt/2_corinthians/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? <a href="/gnt/2_corinthians/6.htm">Good News Translation</a> Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together? <a href="/isv/2_corinthians/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness? <a href="/msb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/net/2_corinthians/6.htm">NET Bible</a> Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/nheb/2_corinthians/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/wbt/2_corinthians/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? <a href="/wey/2_corinthians/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness? <a href="/web/2_corinthians/6.htm">World English Bible</a> Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_corinthians/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness? <a href="/blb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? <a href="/ylt/2_corinthians/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? <a href="/slt/2_corinthians/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? <a href="/cpdv/2_corinthians/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness? <a href="/nabre/2_corinthians/6.htm">New American Bible</a> Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? <a href="/nrsvce/2_corinthians/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_corinthians/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Do not unite in marriage with unbelievers, for what fellowship has righteousness with iniquity? Or what mingling has light with darkness? <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/2_corinthians/6.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> Do not be associates with those who are unbelievers; for what partnership has righteousness with evil, or what intimacy has light with darkness?<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/2_corinthians/6.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? <a href="/godbey/2_corinthians/6.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness? <a href="/haweis/2_corinthians/6.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship is there between light and darkness? <a href="/mace/2_corinthians/6.htm">Mace New Testament</a> Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness? <a href="/wey/2_corinthians/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness? <a href="/worrell/2_corinthians/6.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? <a href="/worsley/2_corinthians/6.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> Be not unsuitably connected with infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness? <a href="/parallel/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddheG4hMg28?start=1060" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_corinthians/6.htm">Do Not Be Unequally Yoked</a> 13As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also. 14<a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: Mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.">Do not</a> <a href="/greek/1096.htm" title="1096: ginesthe (V-PMM/P-2P) -- A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.">be</a> <a href="/greek/2086.htm" title="2086: heterozygountes (V-PPA-NMP) -- To be yoked up differently, to be unequally yoked. From a compound of heteros and zugos; to yoke up differently, i.e. to associate discordantly.">unequally yoked</a> <a href="/greek/571.htm" title="571: apistois (Adj-DMP) -- (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing).">with unbelievers.</a> <a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/5101.htm" title="5101: tis (IPro-NFS) -- Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.">what</a> <a href="/greek/3352.htm" title="3352: metochē (N-NFS) -- Sharing, partnership, fellowship. From metecho; participation, i.e. Intercourse.">partnership can</a> <a href="/greek/1343.htm" title="1343: dikaiosynē (N-DFS) -- From dikaios; equity; specially justification.">righteousness</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">have with</a> <a href="/greek/458.htm" title="458: anomia (N-DFS) -- Lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin. From anomos; illegality, i.e. Violation of law or wickedness.">wickedness?</a> <a href="/greek/2228.htm" title="2228: ē (Conj) -- Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than.">Or</a> <a href="/greek/5101.htm" title="5101: tis (IPro-NFS) -- Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.">what</a> <a href="/greek/2842.htm" title="2842: koinōnia (N-NFS) -- From koinonos; partnership, i.e. participation, or intercourse, or benefaction.">fellowship</a> <a href="/greek/5457.htm" title="5457: phōti (N-DNS) -- Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness.">does light have</a> <a href="/greek/4314.htm" title="4314: pros (Prep) -- To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.">with</a> <a href="/greek/4655.htm" title="4655: skotos (N-ANS) -- Darkness, either physical or moral. From the base of skia; shadiness, i.e. Obscurity.">darkness?</a> 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">1 Corinthians 5:9-11</a> I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. <a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm">Ephesians 5:6-11</a> Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / Therefore do not be partakers with them. / For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, ... <a href="/1_john/1-5.htm">1 John 1:5-7</a> And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. / If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. / But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">1 Corinthians 10:21</a> You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. <a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a> You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. <a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">1 John 2:15-17</a> Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. / For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. / The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever. <a href="/romans/12-2.htm">Romans 12:2</a> Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. <a href="/1_peter/2-9.htm">1 Peter 2:9</a> But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:5</a> For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. <a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16-17</a> So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. / For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. <a href="/matthew/6-24.htm">Matthew 6:24</a> No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. <a href="/john/15-19.htm">John 15:19</a> If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. <a href="/romans/13-12.htm">Romans 13:12</a> The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. <a href="/1_john/3-10.htm">1 John 3:10</a> By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. <a href="/deuteronomy/7-2.htm">Deuteronomy 7:2-4</a> and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. / Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?unequally.<a href="/exodus/34-16.htm">Exodus 34:16</a> 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.<a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm">Leviticus 19:19</a> 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.<a href="/deuteronomy/7-2.htm">Deuteronomy 7:2,3</a> 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: … for.<a href="/1_samuel/5-2.htm">1 Samuel 5:2,3</a> When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon… <a href="/1_kings/18-21.htm">1 Kings 18:21</a> 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.<a href="/2_chronicles/19-2.htm">2 Chronicles 19:2</a> 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.and what.<a href="/proverbs/8-18.htm">Proverbs 8:18,19</a> Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness… <a href="/romans/13-12.htm">Romans 13:12-14</a> 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… <a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17-20</a> This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/zechariah/14-15.htm">Asses</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-39.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-24.htm">Close</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/12-7.htm">Common</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-17.htm">Communion</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">Company</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-6.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-6.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-8.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-7.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-20.htm">Fellowship</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-6.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-17.htm">Light</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-10.htm">Others</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-10.htm">Oxen</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-10.htm">Partaking</a> <a href="/romans/15-27.htm">Partnership</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-7.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-1.htm">Together</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-4.htm">Unbelievers</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-6.htm">Unrighteousness</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-8.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/micah/1-13.htm">Yoked</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/12-16.htm">Asses</a> <a href="/galatians/5-3.htm">Bound</a> <a href="/philippians/2-27.htm">Close</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-15.htm">Common</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-19.htm">Communion</a> <a href="/galatians/2-1.htm">Company</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-18.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-15.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-15.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/6-15.htm">Fellowship</a> <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-7.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm">Light</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/8-8.htm">Others</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-13.htm">Oxen</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-6.htm">Partaking</a> <a href="/philippians/1-5.htm">Partnership</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-9.htm">Righteousness</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-3.htm">Together</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-7.htm">Unbelievers</a> <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-10.htm">Unrighteousness</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/exodus/14-6.htm">Yoked</a><div class="vheading2">2 Corinthians 6</div>1. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-1.htm">That he has approved himself a faithful minister of Christ by his exhortations,</a> 3. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-3.htm">and by integrity of life,</a> 4. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-4.htm">and by patiently enduring all kinds of affliction and disgrace for the gospel.</a> 10. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-10.htm">Of which he speaks the more boldly amongst them because his heart is open to them,</a> 13. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-13.htm">and he expects the like affection from them again;</a> 14. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">exhorting them to flee the society and pollutions of idolaters, </a> 17. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-17.htm">as being themselves temples of the living God.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase draws on the imagery of a yoke, a wooden beam used to pair animals together for plowing. In the Old Testament, <a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm">Deuteronomy 22:10</a> prohibits yoking an ox and a donkey together, highlighting the importance of pairing like with like for effective work. Spiritually, this metaphor warns against forming binding relationships, such as marriage or business partnerships, with those who do not share the Christian faith. The principle is rooted in the idea that believers and unbelievers have fundamentally different values and worldviews, which can lead to conflict and compromise of one's faith. This teaching aligns with the broader biblical theme of separation from sin and dedication to God, as seen in passages like <a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">1 Corinthians 15:33</a> and <a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a>.For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? This rhetorical question emphasizes the incompatibility between a life lived according to God's standards (righteousness) and one characterized by sin (wickedness). The Bible consistently contrasts these two paths, as seen in <a href="/psalms/1.htm">Psalm 1</a>, which describes the blessedness of the righteous and the downfall of the wicked. The concept of righteousness is central to the Christian faith, reflecting God's character and His expectations for His people. In the New Testament, believers are called to pursue righteousness through faith in Christ (<a href="/romans/3-22.htm">Romans 3:22</a>), while wickedness is associated with rebellion against God and His laws. This dichotomy underscores the need for believers to maintain purity and integrity in their relationships and interactions.Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? Light and darkness are powerful biblical symbols representing good and evil, truth and falsehood, God and Satan. In <a href="/john/8-12.htm">John 8:12</a>, Jesus declares Himself the "light of the world," signifying His role in revealing truth and guiding believers. Darkness, conversely, is often associated with ignorance, sin, and separation from God (<a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm">Ephesians 5:8-11</a>). The imagery of light and darkness is used throughout Scripture to illustrate the transformative power of the gospel, which calls believers out of darkness into God's marvelous light (<a href="/1_peter/2-9.htm">1 Peter 2:9</a>). This phrase reinforces the idea that believers, as children of light, should not engage in practices or relationships that align with the darkness of unbelief and sin.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of 2 Corinthians, writing to the church in Corinth to provide guidance and instruction on living a Christian life. 2. <a href="/topical/c/corinth.htm">Corinth</a> A major city in ancient Greece known for its wealth and moral decadence, where the early church faced challenges in maintaining Christian values amidst a pagan culture. 3. <a href="/topical/b/believers_and_unbelievers.htm">Believers and Unbelievers</a> The primary groups addressed in this passage, highlighting the distinction between those who follow Christ and those who do not. 4. <a href="/topical/r/righteousness_and_wickedness.htm">Righteousness and Wickedness</a> Concepts representing the moral and spiritual dichotomy between living according to God's standards and living in sin. 5. <a href="/topical/l/light_and_darkness.htm">Light and Darkness</a> Metaphors used throughout Scripture to symbolize truth and falsehood, purity and sin, and the presence of God versus the absence of God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_the_yoke_metaphor.htm">Understanding the Yoke Metaphor</a> The yoke was a wooden beam used to pair animals for plowing. Being "unequally yoked" suggests an imbalance that hinders progress. In relationships, this means that differing spiritual values can lead to conflict and compromise. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_holiness.htm">The Call to Holiness</a> Christians are called to live distinct lives, set apart for God. This involves making choices that reflect our commitment to righteousness and avoiding partnerships that could lead us away from God's will. <a href="/topical/e/evaluating_relationships.htm">Evaluating Relationships</a> While we are called to love and witness to unbelievers, our closest relationships should be with those who share our faith, ensuring mutual encouragement and growth in Christ. <a href="/topical/l/light_and_darkness_cannot_coexist.htm">Light and Darkness Cannot Coexist</a> Just as light dispels darkness, a life committed to Christ should naturally stand in contrast to worldly values. This calls for discernment in our associations and activities. <a href="/topical/p/practical_wisdom_in_daily_life.htm">Practical Wisdom in Daily Life</a> Applying this principle involves assessing our friendships, business partnerships, and even entertainment choices to ensure they align with our faith and values.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_corinthians_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Corinthians 6</a> <a href="/q/how_do_dating_and_courting_differ.htm">How do dating and courting differ?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_2_cor_6_14_avoid_division.htm">In 2 Corinthians 6:14, how can “not being yoked to unbelievers” avoid promoting division or discrimination in society?</a> <a href="/q/is_dating_to_convert_wise.htm">Is dating to convert someone a good idea?</a> <a href="/q/should_you_separate_yourself_from_them.htm">Should you separate yourself from them?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_corinthians/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.--We seem at first to enter, by an abrupt transition, upon a new line of exhortation. The under-current of thought is, however, not difficult to trace. There was a false latitude as well as a true. The baser party at Corinth might think it a matter of indifference whether they married a heathen or a Christian, whether they chose their intimate friends among the worshippers of Aphrodite or of Christ. Against that "enlargement" the Apostle feels bound to protest. The Greek word for "unequally yoked together" is not found elsewhere, and was probably coined by St. Paul to give expression to his thoughts. Its meaning is, however, determined by the use of the cognate noun in <a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm" title="You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come on you.">Leviticus 19:19</a> ("Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind"). Cattle were unequally yoked together when ox and ass were drawing the same plough (<a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm" title="You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.">Deuteronomy 22:10</a>). Men and women are so when they have no common bond of faith in God. Another explanation refers the image to the yoke of a balance, or pair of scales, and so sees in the precept a warning against partiality in judgment; but this rests on very slender ground, or rather, no ground at all.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_corinthians/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 14. - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Ewald, followed by Dean Stanley, Holsten, and others, thinks that here there is a sudden dislocation of the argument, and some have even supposed that the section, <a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1</a>, is either an after thought written by the apostle on the margin of the Epistle after it was finished; or even an interpolation. The latter view has arisen from the unusual expressions of the section, and the use of the word "Belial," and the command of Greek shown by the varied expressions. There is no adequate ground for these conjectures. Every writer is conscious of moods in which words come to him more fluently than at other times, and all writers of deep feeling, like St. Paul, abound in sudden transitions which correspond to the lightning-like rapidity of their thoughts. It is doubtful whether the readers would not have seen at once the sequence of thought, which depends on circumstances which we can only conjecture. Probably the alienation from St. Paul had its root in some tampering with unbelievers. Such might at any rate have been the case among the Gentile members of the Church, some of whom were even willing to go to sacrificial feasts in heathen temples (<a href="/1_corinthians/8.htm">1 Corinthians 8-10</a>.). "Unequally yoked" is a metaphor derived from <a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm">Leviticus 19:19</a> and <a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm">Deuteronomy 22:10</a>, and is the opposite of "true yoke fellow" (<a href="/philippians/4-3.htm">Philippians 4:3</a>). What fellowship; literally, participation (<a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm">Ephesians 5:6-11</a>). Unrighteousness; literally, lawlessness (<a href="/1_john/3-4.htm">1 John 3:4</a>). It was a special mark of heathen life (<a href="/romans/7-19.htm">Romans 7:19</a>). Light with darkness. This antithesis is specially prominent in <a href="/ephesians/5-9.htm">Ephesians 5:9-11</a> and <a href="/colossians/1-12.htm">Colossians 1:12, 13</a>, and in the writings of St. John (<a href="/john/1-5.htm">John 1:5</a>; <a href="/john/3-19.htm">John 3:19</a>; 1 John, passim). <a href="/commentaries/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>{Do} not Μὴ (Mē) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3361.htm">Strong's 3361: </a> Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether. be γίνεσθε (ginesthe) Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1096.htm">Strong's 1096: </a> A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. unequally yoked ἑτεροζυγοῦντες (heterozygountes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2086.htm">Strong's 2086: </a> To be yoked up differently, to be unequally yoked. From a compound of heteros and zugos; to yoke up differently, i.e. to associate discordantly. with unbelievers. ἀπίστοις (apistois) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_571.htm">Strong's 571: </a> (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing). For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. what τίς (tis) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5101.htm">Strong's 5101: </a> Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what. partnership [can] μετοχὴ (metochē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3352.htm">Strong's 3352: </a> Sharing, partnership, fellowship. From metecho; participation, i.e. Intercourse. righteousness δικαιοσύνῃ (dikaiosynē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1343.htm">Strong's 1343: </a> From dikaios; equity; specially justification. [have with] καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. wickedness? ἀνομίᾳ (anomia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_458.htm">Strong's 458: </a> Lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin. From anomos; illegality, i.e. Violation of law or wickedness. Or ἢ (ē) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2228.htm">Strong's 2228: </a> Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than. what τίς (tis) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5101.htm">Strong's 5101: </a> Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what. fellowship κοινωνία (koinōnia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2842.htm">Strong's 2842: </a> From koinonos; partnership, i.e. participation, or intercourse, or benefaction. [does] light [have] φωτὶ (phōti) Noun - Dative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5457.htm">Strong's 5457: </a> Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness. with πρὸς (pros) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_4314.htm">Strong's 4314: </a> To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward. darkness? σκότος (skotos) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4655.htm">Strong's 4655: </a> Darkness, either physical or moral. 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