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?”
In 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 7:1 Paul urges the Corinthians to separate from practices tied to idolatry. The image of a yoke recalls the law in Deuteronomy forbidding plowing with an ox and a donkey together, animals of unequal strength and nature.
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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
King James Version (KJV)
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
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?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)
No os juntéis en yugo con los infieles: porque ¿qué compañía tiene la justicia con la injusticia? ¿y qué comunión la luz con las tinieblas?
Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)
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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)
No se unan en matrimonio con los que no creen en el Señor, porque ¿qué pueden tener en común la justicia con la maldad? ¿Cómo puede la luz llevarse bien con la oscuridad?
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