2 Corinthians 6:14-18
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We Are God’s Temple
14 You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room. 15 How can there be any unity between Christ and the devil[a]? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 God’s temple[b] cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said,
“I will live with them
and walk with them;
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.” (A)
17 “So come away from those people
and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch anything that is not clean,
and I will accept you.” (B)
18 “I will be your father,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord All-Powerful.” (C)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 the devil Literally, “ beliar,” one form of the Hebrew word “ belial,” which means “worthlessness” and was used to refer to the devil or the enemy of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 God’s temple God’s house—the place where God’s people worship him. Here, it means that believers are the spiritual temple where God lives.
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