2 Corinthians 6:14-17
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Warning Against Idolatry
14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C) 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]?(D) Or what does a believer(E) have in common with an unbeliever?(F) 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(G) For we are the temple(H) of the living God.(I) As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”[b](J)
17 Therefore,
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41
Genesis 26:34-35
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Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing
34 When Esau was forty years old,(A) he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.(B) 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.(C)
Nehemiah 13:25
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25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath(A) in God’s name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.(B)
2 Kings 19:15
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15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,(A) you alone(B) are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Deuteronomy 7:3-4
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3 Do not intermarry with them.(A) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(B) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(C) you.
Genesis 28:8
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1 Corinthians 7:39
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39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives.(A) But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.(B)
Jeremiah 10:11
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11 “Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish(A) from the earth and from under the heavens.’”[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:11 The text of this verse is in Aramaic.
Nehemiah 9:6
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2 Chronicles 2:12
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12 And Hiram added:
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth!(A) He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the Lord and a palace for himself.
Joshua 2:12
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12 “Now then, please swear to me(A) by the Lord that you will show kindness(B) to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign(C)
Deuteronomy 10:20
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Deuteronomy 6:13
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Numbers 5:21
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21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse(A)—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[a] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
Footnotes
- Numbers 5:21 That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27.
Exodus 34:16
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16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives(A) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,(B) they will lead your sons to do the same.
Exodus 23:13
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13 “Be careful(A) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(B) do not let them be heard on your lips.(C)
Exodus 20:7
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7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.(A)
Genesis 50:25
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25 And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath(A) and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones(B) up from this place.”(C)
Genesis 31:44-53
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44 Come now, let’s make a covenant,(A) you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”(B)
45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.(C) 46 He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap,(D) and they ate there by the heap. 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.[a](E)
48 Laban said, “This heap(F) is a witness between you and me today.”(G) That is why it was called Galeed. 49 It was also called Mizpah,[b](H) because he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. 50 If you mistreat(I) my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness(J) between you and me.”(K)
51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is this heap,(L) and here is this pillar(M) I have set up between you and me. 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness,(N) that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap(O) and pillar to my side to harm me.(P) 53 May the God of Abraham(Q) and the God of Nahor,(R) the God of their father, judge between us.”(S)
So Jacob took an oath(T) in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.(U)
Footnotes
- Genesis 31:47 The Aramaic Jegar Sahadutha and the Hebrew Galeed both mean witness heap.
- Genesis 31:49 Mizpah means watchtower.
Genesis 27:46-28:2
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46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite(A) women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land,(B) from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”(C)
28 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed(D) him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.(E) 2 Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a](F) to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel.(G) Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(H)
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:2 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7
Genesis 21:23
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23 Now swear(A) to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.(B) Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”(C)
Genesis 14:19
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19 and he blessed Abram,(A) saying,
Genesis 10:15-19
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15 Canaan(A) was the father of
Sidon(B) his firstborn,[a](C) and of the Hittites,(D) 16 Jebusites,(E) Amorites,(F) Girgashites,(G) 17 Hivites,(H) Arkites, Sinites, 18 Arvadites,(I) Zemarites and Hamathites.(J)
Later the Canaanite(K) clans scattered 19 and the borders of Canaan(L) reached from Sidon(M) toward Gerar(N) as far as Gaza,(O) and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim,(P) as far as Lasha.
Footnotes
- Genesis 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
Genesis 6:4
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4 The Nephilim(A) were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans(B) and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.(C)
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