The Daily Audio Bible

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with the unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or, what share has the believer with the unbeliever?

¹⁶ And what assent has the Temple of God with idols? For you are the Temple of the living God. As God has said, “I will dwell among them, and walk there. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ “Therefore, come out from among them, and separate yourselves”, says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing. And I will receive you.

¹⁸ “And I will be a Father to you. And you shall be my sons and daughters”, says the Lord Almighty.

7 Seeing then we have these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, and complete our sanctification in the fear of God.

² Receive us. We have wronged no one. We have corrupted no one. We have defrauded no one.

³ I speak it not to your condemnation. For I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die and live together.

⁴ I use great boldness of speech toward you. I rejoice greatly in you. I am filled with comfort and am exceedingly joyous in all our tribulation.

⁵ For when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest. But we were troubled on every side, fightings without, and terrors within.

⁶ But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us at the coming of Titus;

⁷ and only not by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted by you, when he told us your great desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me, so that I rejoiced much more.