2 Corinthians 6:14

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Set youreselues therfore at large and beare not a straugers yoke wyth the vnbelevers. For what fellishippe hath rightewesnes with vnrightewesnes? What company hath light wt darcknes?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ γίνεσθε ἑτεροζυγοῦντες ἀπίστοις: τίς γὰρ μετοχὴ δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομίᾳ; τίς δὲ κοινωνία φωτὶ πρὸς σκότος;

Transliteration

Not ginesthe heterozygountes with apistois: what for metochē for dikaiosynē and anomia? what de koinōnia for phōti pros skotos?

Grammar Details

• *ginesthe*: present imperative, middle, 2nd person plural - become/be
• *heterozygountes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - unequally yoked/mismatched
• *apistois*: dative, masculine, plural - unbelievers/unfaithful ones
• *metochē*: nominative, feminine, singular - partnership/participation/sharing
• *dikaiosynē*: dative, feminine, singular - righteousness/justice
• *anomia*: dative, feminine, singular - lawlessness/iniquity
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *koinōnia*: nominative, feminine, singular - fellowship/communion/association
• *phōti*: dative, neuter, singular - light
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - with/toward
• *skotos*: accusative, neuter, singular - darkness

Word Meanings

• *ginesthe*: become/be/happen to be
• *heterozygountes*: unequally yoked/mismatched/paired with something different
• *apistois*: unbelievers/unfaithful ones/non-Christians
• *metochē*: partnership/participation/sharing/association
• *dikaiosynē*: righteousness/justice/rightness
• *anomia*: lawlessness/iniquity/wickedness
• *koinōnia*: fellowship/communion/association/partnership
• *phōti*: light/illumination/brightness
• *skotos*: darkness/obscurity/ignorance

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Be not deceaved: malicious speakinges corrupte good maners.
• Eph 5:6-9 : 6 Let no ma deceave you with vayne wordes. For thorow soche thinges cometh the wrath of God vpon the chyldre of vnbelefe. 7 Be not therfore companions with them. 8 Ye were once dercknes but are now light in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light. 9 For the frute of the sprete is in all goodnes rightewesnes and trueth. 10 Accept that which is pleasinge to the Lorde: 11 and have no fellishippe with the vnfrutfull workes of dercknes: but rather rebuke them. 12 For it is shame even to name those thinges which are done of them in secrete: 13 but all thinges when they are rebuked of the light are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest that same is light. 14 Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest and stond vp from deeth and Christ shall geve the light.
• 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 Ye canot drincke of the cup of the LORde and of yt cup of ye deuyls. Ye cnanot be partetakers of the LORdes table and of the table of deuelles.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye advouterars and wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how yt the freshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to god warde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde is made the enemie of god.
• Deut 22:9-9 : 9 Thou shalt not sowe thy vyneyarde with dyuerse sede: lest thou halowe the sede whiche thou hast sowen with the frute off thy vyneyarde. 10 Thou shalt not plowe with an oxe ad an asse togetherr 11 Thou shalt not weere a garment made of woll and flax together.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But ye are a chosyn generacion a royall presthod an holy nacio and a peculiar people that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light 10 which in tyme past were not a people yet are now the people of God: which were not vnder mercye but now have obteyned mercye.
• 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But ye brethre are not in darcknes that yt daye shuld come on you as it were a thefe. 5 Ye are all the childre of light and the children of ye daye. We are not of ye nyght nether of darcknes. 6 Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght. 8 But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacio as an helmet.
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that he hence forwarde shuld lyve as moche tyme as remayneth in the flesshe: not after ye lustes of men but after the will of God. 3 For it is sufficient for vs that we have spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe after the will of the gentyls walkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennes in eatinge drinkinge and in abominable ydolatrie. 4 And it semeth to them a straunge thinge that ye runne not also with them vnto the same excesse of ryote and therfore speake they evill of you
• Eph 4:17-20 : 17 This I saye therfore and testifie in ye LORde that ye hence forth walke not as other gentyls walke in vanitie of their mynde 18 blynded in their vnderstondynge beynge straungers from the lyfe which is in god thorow the ignorancy that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hertes: 19 which beynge past repentaunce have geven them selves vnto wantannes to worke all manner of vnclennes even with gredynes. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ
• Exod 34:16 : 16 ad thou take of their doughters vnto thi sonnes, and when their doughters goo a whoorynge after their goddes,
• Lev 19:19 : 19 Kepe myne ordinaunces. Let none of thy catell gendre with a cotrary kynde, nether sowe thy felde with myngled seed, nether shalt thou put on ony garment of lynen and wollen
• Deut 7:2-3 : 2 ad whe the Lorde thy God hath sett them before the that thou shuldest smyte them se that thou vtterly destroye them and make no couenaunt with them nor haue compassion on them. 3 Also thou shalt make no mariages with them, nether geue thy doughter vnto his sonne nor take his doughter vnto thy sonne.
• John 7:7 : 7 The worlde canot hate you. Me it hateth: because I testify of it that the workes of it are evyll.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 Yf ye worlde hate you ye knowe that he hated me before he hated you. 19 Yf ye were of the worlde ye worlde wolde love his awne. How be it because ye are not of ye worlde but I have chosen you out of the worlde therfore hateth you the worlde.
• Acts 4:23 : 23 Assone as they were let goo they came to their felowes and shewed all that the hye prestes and elders had sayde to them.
• Rom 13:12-14 : 12 The nyght is passed and the daye is come nye. Let us therfore cast awaye the dedes of darcknes and let vs put on the (Armoure) of lyght. 13 Let vs walke honestly as it were in the daye lyght: not in eatynge and drinkynge: nether in chamburynge and wantannes: nether in stryfe and envyinge: 14 but put ye on the Lorde Iesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesshe to fulfyll ye lustes of it.
• 1 Cor 5:9 : 9 I wrote vnto you in a pistle that ye shuld not company with fornicatours.
• 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll only in the LORde.
• Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye maye be fautelesse and pure and the sonnes of God with out rebuke in ye middes of a croked and a perverse nacion amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde
• 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the tydynges which we have hearde of him and declare vnto you that god is lyght and in him is no darknes at all 6 yf we saye that we have fellishippe with him and yet walke in darknes we lye and do not the truth: 7 but and yf we walke in (lyght) even as he is in lyght then have we fellishippe with him and the bloud of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all synne.
• 1 John 3:12-14 : 12 not as Cayn which was of the wicked and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? Because his awne workes were evyll and his brothers good. 13 Marvayle not my brethren though the worlde hate you. 14 We knowe that we are translated from deeth vnto lyfe be cause we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abydeth in deeth.