2 Corinthians 6:14
English Standard Version
The Temple of the Living God
14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness?
Read full chapter
1 Corinthians 15:33
English Standard Version
33 (A)Do not be deceived: (B)“Bad company ruins good morals.”[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais
1 Corinthians 10:21
English Standard Version
21 (A)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (B)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and (C)the table of demons.
Read full chapter
James 4:4
English Standard Version
4 (A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!
Ephesians 5:6-14
English Standard Version
6 (A)Let no one (B)deceive you with empty words, for because of these things (C)the wrath of God comes upon (D)the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore (E)do not become partners with them; 8 for (F)at one time you were (G)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (H)Walk as children of light 9 (for (I)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and (J)try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 (K)Take no part in the (L)unfruitful (M)works of darkness, but instead (N)expose them. 12 For (O)it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when (P)anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
Read full chapter
Leviticus 19:19
English Standard Version
You Shall Keep My Statutes
19 (A)“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. (B)You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Read full chapter
1 Peter 2:9-10
English Standard Version
9 But you are (A)a chosen race, (B)a royal (C)priesthood, (D)a holy nation, (E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you (F)out of darkness into (G)his marvelous light. 10 (H)Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Read full chapter
Psalm 26:4-5
English Standard Version
4 I do not (A)sit with men of (B)falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
5 I (C)hate the assembly of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.
Psalm 139:21-22
English Standard Version
21 (A)Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
And do I not (B)loathe those who (C)rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
English Standard Version
9 (A)“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited,[a] the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11 You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 22:9 Hebrew become holy
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
English Standard Version
4 But you (A)are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all (B)children[a] of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then (C)let us not sleep, as others do, but let us (D)keep awake and (E)be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, (F)are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, (G)having put on the breastplate of (H)faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5 Or sons; twice in this verse
Psalm 106:35
English Standard Version
35 but they (A)mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
Ephesians 4:17-20
English Standard Version
The New Life
17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds. 18 They (D)are darkened in their understanding, (E)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (F)their hardness of heart. 19 They (G)have become callous and (H)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you (I)learned Christ!—
Read full chapter
1 Corinthians 5:9
English Standard Version
9 I wrote to you in my letter (A)not to associate with sexually immoral people—
Read full chapter
1 Kings 18:21
English Standard Version
21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long (A)will you go limping between two different opinions? (B)If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 22:24
English Standard Version
24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
nor go with a wrathful man,
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
English Standard Version
2 (A)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must (B)devote them to complete destruction.[a] (C)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 (D)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
John 15:18-19
English Standard Version
The Hatred of the World
18 (A)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because (C)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Read full chapter
Malachi 2:11
English Standard Version
11 Judah has been (A)faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For (B)Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 29:27
English Standard Version
27 (A)An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous,
but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.
Romans 13:12-14
English Standard Version
12 (A)The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us (B)cast off (C)the works of darkness and (D)put on the armor of light. 13 (E)Let us walk properly as in the daytime, (F)not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, (G)not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But (H)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, (I)to gratify its desires.
Read full chapter
Psalm 119:63
English Standard Version
63 (A)I am a companion of all who fear you,
of those who keep your precepts.
Malachi 2:15
English Standard Version
15 (A)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[a] And what was the one God[b] seeking?[c] (B)Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be (C)faithless to the wife of your youth.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew in it
- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew the one
- Malachi 2:15 Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
- Malachi 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16
Ezra 9:11-12
English Standard Version
11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with (A)their uncleanness. 12 (B)Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land (C)and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Read full chapterThe Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.