14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness?

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  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship

33 Do not be deceived: (A)“Evil company corrupts good habits.”

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21 (A)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (B)the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the (C)Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

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[a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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  1. James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be (A)partakers with them.

Walk in Light

For you were once darkness, but now you are (B)light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for (C)the fruit of the [a]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 (D)finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have (E)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [b]expose them. 12 (F)For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But (G)all things that are [c]exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

(H)“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.”

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  1. Ephesians 5:9 NU light
  2. Ephesians 5:11 reprove
  3. Ephesians 5:13 reproved

19 ‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.

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But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of (A)darkness into His marvelous light; 10 (B)who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

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(A)“You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

10 (B)“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 (C)“You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.

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

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  1. Psalm 139:22 complete

(A)But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all (B)sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. (C)Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but (D)let us watch and be [a]sober. For (E)those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk (F)are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, (G)putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 self-controlled

I have not (A)sat with idolatrous mortals,
Nor will I go in with hypocrites.
I have (B)hated the assembly of evildoers,
And will not sit with the wicked.

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The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should (A)no longer walk as [a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the (B)blindness of their heart; 19 (C)who, being past feeling, (D)have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ,

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  1. Ephesians 4:17 NU omits the rest of

Immorality Must Be Judged

I wrote to you in my epistle (A)not to [a]keep company with sexually immoral people.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 5:9 associate

35 (A)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;

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21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, (A)“How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, (B)follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.

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The World’s Hatred

18 (A)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet (C)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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11 Judah has dealt treacherously,
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has (A)profaned
The Lord’s holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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and when the Lord your God delivers (A)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (B)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. (C)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

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12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. (A)Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and (B)let us put on the armor of light. 13 (C)Let us walk [a]properly, as in the day, (D)not in revelry and drunkenness, (E)not in lewdness and lust, (F)not in strife and envy. 14 But (G)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and (H)make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

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  1. Romans 13:13 decently

24 Make no friendship with an angry man,
And with a (A)furious man do not go,

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15 that you may become blameless and [a]harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as (A)lights in the world,

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  1. Philippians 2:15 innocent

27 An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

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63 I am a companion of all who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.

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Fellowship with Him and One Another

(A)This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that (B)God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. (C)If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we (D)walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and (E)the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

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11 which You commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land, with the (A)uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to another with their impurity. 12 Now therefore, (B)do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and (C)never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and (D)leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’

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