² and when the Lord your God has delivered^(A) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy^(B) them totally.^[a](C) Make no treaty^(D) with them, and show them no mercy.^(E)

³ Do not intermarry with them.^(A) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

⁹ I wrote to you in my letter not to associate^(A) with sexually immoral people—

¹⁰ not at all meaning the people of this world^(A) who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

⁷ Therefore do not be partners with them.

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,^(A) but rather expose them.

⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness,^(A) we lie and do not live out the truth.^(B)