"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"
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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.
Now 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.
On 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;
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
This 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.
Not 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.
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.
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 woolen come upon thee.
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 show mercy unto them:
When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
And 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.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
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.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
The 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.
That 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;
Which 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.
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Judah 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.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
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?
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?