2 Corinthians 6:14
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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Study Note
The injunction 'be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers' employs the agricultural image of mismatched draft animals (Deuteronomy 22:10 forbids yoking ox and donkey together) to describe incompatible covenantal alignments. The five rhetorical antitheses that follow — righteousness/unrighteousness, light/darkness, Christ/Belial, believer/infidel, temple of God/idols — reflect a dualistic ethical framework whose closest parallels are in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Community Rule's 'Two Spirits'), suggesting Paul drew on sectarian Jewish purity discourse. The passage concludes with a catena of Old Testament quotations (Leviticus 26:12; Isaiah 52:11; 2 Samuel 7:14; Isaiah 43:6) creating a scriptural mosaic that embeds the Corinthian community within Israel's covenant identity. The verse has been applied historically to marriage, business partnerships, and ecumenical relationships with varying results.
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Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?
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?
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