2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore “‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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In Context
18I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
Cross References
Numbers 16:26He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
Deuteronomy 14:6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, amongst the animals, you may eat.
Ezra 10:11Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”
Proverbs 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
Jeremiah 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense.
Acts 2:40With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 6:12-18
Cautions against Mingling with Unbelievers. ( a. d. 57.) 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he… Read the whole commentary →