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The Temple of the Living God

14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?(A)

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33 Do not be deceived:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

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21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.(A)

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Adulterers![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.4 Gk Adulterous women; other ancient authorities read Adulterous men and women

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.[a](A) Therefore do not be associated with them, for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,(B) for the fruit of the light[b] is found in all that is good and right and true. 10 Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness; rather, expose them.(C) 12 For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly, 13 but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 14 for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

“Sleeper, awake!
    Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.6 Gk sons of disobedience
  2. 5.9 Other ancient authorities read of the Spirit

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or the whole yield will be forbidden, both the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard itself.(A)

10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

11 “You shall not wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together.(B)

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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)

10 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.(B)

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  1. 2.9 Gk a people for his possession

19 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials.(A)

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But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief;(A) for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(B) for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(C) But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.(D)

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I do not sit with the worthless,
    nor do I consort with hypocrites;(A)
I hate the company of evildoers
    and will not sit with the wicked.(B)

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The Old Life and the New

17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A) 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(B) 19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 That is not the way you learned Christ!

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Footnotes

  1. 4.17 Other ancient authorities add other

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?(A)
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
    I count them my enemies.

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21 Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.(A)

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15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,(A)

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Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral persons,

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The World’s Hatred

18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.(A) 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.(A)

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24 Make no friends with those given to anger,
    and do not associate with hotheads,

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35 but they mingled with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.(A)

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and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.(A) Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,(B)

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God Is Light

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.(A) If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.(B)

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12 the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off[a] the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;(A) 13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(B) 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 13.12 Other ancient authorities read lay aside

27 The unjust are an abomination to the righteous,
    but the upright are an abomination to the wicked.

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63 I am a companion of all who fear you,
    of those who keep your precepts.(A)

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11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations. They have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.(A) 12 Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’(B)

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