11 translations · Greek
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
- KJV 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Don't join together with people who don't believe—for what connection does goodness have with wickedness? What do light and darkness have in common?
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Become not yoked with others — unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?
- DBY Darby Translation
- Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Μὴ | Mē | {Do} not | G3361 μή not |
| γίνεσθε | ginesthe | be | G1096 γίνομαι to be |
| ἑτεροζυγοῦντες | heterozygountes | unequally yoked | G2086 ἑτεροζυγέω to yoke a mismatch |
| ἀπίστοις | apistois | with unbelievers | G571 ἄπιστος unbelieving |
| τίς | tis | what | G5101 τίς which? |
| γὰρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| μετοχὴ | metochē | partnership [can] | G3352 μετοχή participation |
| δικαιοσύνῃ | dikaiosynē | righteousness | G1343 δικαιοσύνη righteousness |
| καὶ | kai | [have with] | G2532 καί and |
| ἀνομίᾳ | anomia | wickedness | G458 ἀνομία lawlessness |
| ἢ | ē | Or | G2228 ἤ or |
| τίς | tis | what | G5101 τίς which? |
| κοινωνία | koinōnia | fellowship | G2842 κοινωνία participation |
| φωτὶ | phōti | [does] light [have] | G5457 φῶς light |
| πρὸς | pros | with | G4314 πρός to/with |
| σκότος | skotos | darkness | G4655 σκότος darkness |
Related verses
- 1 Corinthians 15:33
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:21
You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
- James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Ephesians 5:6–14
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. Therefore don’t be partakers with them. For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, …
- Leviticus 19:19
“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Psalm 26:4–5
I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
- 1 Peter 2:9–10
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- Deuteronomy 22:9–11
You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
- Psalm 139:21–22
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
- Ephesians 4:17–20
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. …
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
13 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also open your hearts.
14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Read all of 2 Corinthians 6 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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