2 Corinthians 6:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?

📖 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 led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
• Eph 5:6-9 : 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, 7 become not, then, partakers with them, 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit `is' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, 10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict, 12 for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of, 13 and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light; 14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
• 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;
• Deut 22:9-9 : 9 `Thou dost not sow thy vineyard `with' divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated. 10 `Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together. 11 `Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; 10 who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
• Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? 22 `With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
• 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; 5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
• 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, `Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah `is' God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.
• Ezra 9:11-12 : 11 that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, `is' a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it -- from mouth unto mouth -- by their uncleanness; 12 and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good -- unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age.
• Ps 26:4-5 : 4 I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. 5 I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
• Eph 4:17-20 : 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, 19 who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; 20 and ye did not so learn the Christ,
• Mal 2:11 : 11 Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
• Mal 2:15 : 15 And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
• John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
• Acts 4:23 : 23 And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,
• Rom 13:12-14 : 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light; 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; 14 but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
• 1 Cor 5:9 : 9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --
• 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;
• Ps 119:63 : 63 A companion I `am' to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.
• Prov 29:27 : 27 An abomination to the righteous `is' the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked `is' the upright in the way!
• Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
• Ps 26:9-9 : 9 Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life, 10 In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.
• Ps 44:20-21 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God, 21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Neh 13:23-26 : 23 Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews `who' have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab. 24 And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish -- and are not knowing to speak Jewish -- and according to the language of people and people. 25 And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves. 26 `By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.
• Ps 16:3 : 3 For the holy ones who `are' in the land, And the honourable, all my delight `is' in them.
• Ezra 10:19 : 19 and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.
• 1 Sam 5:2-3 : 2 and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon. 3 And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place.
• Exod 34:16 : 16 and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;
• Lev 19:19 : 19 `My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender `with' diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
• Deut 7:2-3 : 2 and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them. 3 `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,
• Neh 13:1-3 : 1 On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God -- unto the age, 2 because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing. 3 And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.
• 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, `To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee `is' wrath from before Jehovah,
• Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite, 2 for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.'
• Prov 8:18-19 : 18 Wealth and honour `are' with me, Lasting substance and righteousness. 19 Better `is' my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.
• Prov 22:24 : 24 Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
• Ps 101:3-5 : 3 I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me. 4 A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not. 5 Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.
• Ps 106:35 : 35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
• 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; 6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth; 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
• 1 John 3:12-14 : 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.