12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you (A)and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

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(A)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

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Whoever says he is in the light and (A)hates his brother is still in darkness.

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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them (C)freedom, (D)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if, (E)after they have escaped the defilements of the world (F)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, (G)the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For (H)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from (I)the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The (J)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

38 (A)but my righteous one shall live by faith,
    and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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The Temple of the Living God

14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 (D)What accord has Christ with Belial?[a] Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (E)we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

(F)“I will make my dwelling among them and (G)walk among them,
    and (H)I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore (I)go out from their midst,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
    then I will welcome you,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar

Marks of the True Christian

(A)Let love be genuine. (B)Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

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66 (A)After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

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45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and (A)the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this (B)evil generation.”

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(A)those who have turned back from following the Lord,
    (B)who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

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24 (A)But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? (B)None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for (C)the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.

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Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly (D)estranged.

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But those who (A)turn aside to their (B)crooked ways
    the Lord will lead away with (C)evildoers!
    (D)Peace be upon Israel!

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34 They did not (A)destroy the peoples,
    (B)as the Lord commanded them,
35 but they (C)mixed with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.

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The words of his mouth are (A)trouble and deceit;
    (B)he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

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23 In those days also I saw the Jews (A)who had married women (B)of Ashdod, (C)Ammon, and (D)Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. 25 (E)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (F)And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 (G)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? (H)Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was (I)beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.

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

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Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the (A)Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands (B)with their abominations, from the (C)Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. (D)For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the (E)holy race[a] has (F)mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:2 Hebrew offspring

For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and (A)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, (B)as was the heart of David his father.

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from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, (A)“You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

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David and Jonathan's Friendship

18 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan (A)loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day (B)and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because (C)he loved him as his own soul.

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12 (A)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a (B)snare in your midst. 13 You shall (C)tear down their altars and (D)break their pillars and cut down their (E)Asherim 14 (for (F)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 (G)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they (H)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and (I)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (J)their daughters for your sons, and their daughters (K)whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.

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And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

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24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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