Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right and wrong have in common? Can light and darkness be friends?

你们和不信的原不相配，不要同负一轭。义和不义有什么相交呢？光明和黑暗有什么相通呢？

你们不要和不信的人同负一轭。义和不义有什么相关？光明和黑暗有什么相连？

你们不要和不信的人同负一轭。义和不义有什么相关？光明和黑暗有什么相连？

不要和非信徒同负一轭，因为公义和不法怎能合作呢？光明和黑暗怎能共存呢？

你们和不信的人不可共负一轭，义和不法有什么相同呢？光明和黑暗怎能相通呢？

你们不可与不信的人同负一轭。公义和罪恶到底有什么相通呢？光明与黑暗有什么相合呢？

你們和不信的原不相配，不要同負一軛。義和不義有甚麼相交呢？光明和黑暗有甚麼相通呢？

你們不要和不信的人同負一軛。義和不義有甚麼相關？光明和黑暗有甚麼相連？

你們不要和不信的人同負一軛。義和不義有甚麼相關？光明和黑暗有甚麼相連？

不要和非信徒同負一軛，因為公義和不法怎能合作呢？光明和黑暗怎能共存呢？

你們和不信的人不可共負一軛，義和不法有甚麼相同呢？光明和黑暗怎能相通呢？

別跟不信者異類同軛相配偶了：義和不法怎能合夥呢？光對暗有甚麼團契呢？

你們不可與不信的人同負一軛。公義和罪惡到底有什麼相通呢？光明與黑暗有什麼相合呢？

勿與不信者耦、蓋義與不義、何侶之有、光與暗、何交之有、

勿與不信者耦、蓋義與不義、何侶之有、光與暗、何交之有、

勿與不信者耦、蓋義與不義、何侶之有、光與暗、何交之有、

爾與不信之徒、本非同類、切勿與之同軛。夫正之與邪不能為侶；光之與暗、不能並存；

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?

Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness?

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Don’t let anyone fool you.“ Bad companions make a good person bad.”

You can’t drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too. You can’t have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

You are not faithful to God. Don’t you know that to be a friend of the world is to hate God? So anyone who chooses to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

Don’t let anyone fool you with worthless words. People who say things like that aren’t obeying God. He is angry with them.So don’t go along with people like that.At one time you were in the dark. But now you are in the light because of what the Lord has done. Live like children of the light.The light produces what is completely good, right and true.Find out what pleases the Lord.Have nothing to do with the acts of darkness. They don’t produce anything good. Show what they are really like.It is shameful even to talk about what people who don’t obey do in secret.But everything the light shines on can be seen. And everything that the light shines on becomes a light.That is why it is said,“ Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead. Then Christ will shine on you.”

But God chose you to be his people. You are royal priests. You are a holy nation. You are God’s special treasure. You are all these things so that you can give him praise. God brought you out of darkness into his wonderful light.Once you were not a people. But now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy. But now you have received mercy.

Don’t plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard. If you do, the crops you grow there will be impure. Your grapes will also be impure.Don’t let an ox and a donkey pull the same plow together.Don’t wear clothes made out of wool and linen woven together.

Brothers and sisters, you are not in darkness. So that day should not surprise you as a thief would.All of you are children of the light. You are children of the day. We don’t belong to the night. We don’t belong to the darkness.So let us not be like the others. They are asleep. Instead, let us be wide awake and in full control of ourselves.Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night.But we belong to the day. So let us control ourselves. Let us put on our chest the armor of faith and love. Let us put on the hope of salvation like a helmet.

“‘ Obey my rules.“‘ Do not let different kinds of animals mate with each other.“‘ Do not mix two kinds of seeds and then plant them in your field.“‘ Do not wear clothes that are made out of two kinds of cloth.

Lord, I really hate those who hate you! I really hate those who rise up against you!I have nothing but hatred for them. I consider them to be my enemies.

I don’t spend time with people who tell lies. I don’t keep company with pretenders.I hate to be with a group of sinful people. I refuse to spend time with those who are evil.

Here is what I’m telling you. I am speaking for the Lord as I warn you. You must no longer live as the Gentiles do. Their thoughts don’t have any purpose.They can’t understand the truth. They are separated from the life of God. That’s because they don’t know him. And they don’t know him because their hearts are stubborn.They have lost all feeling for what is right. So they have given themselves over to all kinds of evil pleasures. They take part in every kind of unclean act. And they are full of greed.But that is not the way of life in Christ that you learned about.

Elijah went there and stood in front of the people. He said,“ How long will it take you to make up your minds? If the Lord is the one and only God, worship him. But if Baal is the one and only God, worship him.” The people didn’t say anything.

“ My disciples, does the world hate you? Remember that it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, it would love you like one of its own. But you do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

The Lord your God will hand them over to you. You will win the battle over them. You must completely destroy them. Don’t make a peace treaty with them. Don’t show them any mercy.Don’t marry any of their people. Don’t give your daughters to their sons. And don’t take their daughters for your sons.

Instead, they mixed with those nations and adopted their ways.

And Judah has been unfaithful. A hateful thing has been done in Israel and Jerusalem. The Lord loves his temple. But Judah has made it impure. Their men have married women who worship other gods.

Don’t be a friend of a person who has a bad temper. Don’t go around with a person who gets angry easily.

I wrote a letter to you to tell you to stay away from people who commit sexual sins.

Then you will be pure and without blame. You will be children of God without fault among sinful and evil people. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.

The dark night of evil is nearly over. The day of Christ’s return is almost here. So let us get rid of the works of darkness that harm us. Let us do the works of light that protect us.Let us act as we should, like people living in the daytime. Have nothing to do with wild parties, and don’t get drunk. Don’t take part in sexual sins or evil conduct. Don’t fight with each other or be jealous of anyone.Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ as if he were your clothing. Don’t think about how to satisfy sinful desires.

I’m a friend to everyone who has respect for you. I’m a friend to everyone who follows your rules.

As a result, they don’t live the rest of their earthly life for evil human desires. Instead, they live to do what God wants.You have spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life. You longed for evil things. You got drunk. You went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which the Lord hates.Ungodly people are surprised that you no longer join them in what they do. They want you to join them in their wild and wasteful living. So they say bad things about you.

Those who do what is right hate dishonest people. Those who do what is wrong hate honest people.

You gave us your commands through your servants the prophets. You said,‘ You are entering the land to take it as your own. The sinful practices of its people have made the land impure. They have filled it with their“ unclean” acts from one end to the other. The Lord hates all their practices.So don’t let your daughters marry their sons. And don’t let their daughters marry your sons. Don’t make a peace treaty with them at any time. Then you will be strong. You will eat the good things the land produces. And you will leave all of it to your children as their share. They and their children after them will enjoy it forever.’

The people of the world can’t hate you. But they hate me. This is because I am a witness that their works are evil.

After all these things had been done, the leaders came to me. They said,“ The people of Israel have committed sins. Even the priests and Levites have sinned. They haven’t kept themselves separate from the nations around them. The Lord hates the practices of those nations. He hates what the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites do. He also hates what the Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites do.The men of Israel have married the daughters of some of those people. They’ve also taken some of those women for their sons to marry. So they’ve mixed our holy nation with the nations around us. We leaders and officials have also married women who don’t worship the Lord. By doing this, we have led the way in breaking our covenant with the Lord.”

All of them made a firm promise to send their wives away. Each of these men brought a ram from his flock as a guilt offering.

A woman has to stay married to her husband as long as he lives. If he dies, she is free to marry anyone she wants to. But the one she marries must belong to the Lord.

I say about God’s people who live in our land,“ They are the noble ones. I take great delight in them.”

Hasn’t the one God made the two of you one also? Both of you belong to him in body and spirit. And why has the one God made you one? Because he wants his children to be like him. So be careful. Don’t be unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young.

You will choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. And those daughters will commit sin by worshiping their gods. Then they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

At that time the Book of Moses was read out loud. All the people heard it. It was written there that no Ammonite or Moabite could ever become a member of God’s community.That’s because they hadn’t given the people of Israel food and water. Instead, they had hired Balaam to put a curse on them. But our God turned the curse into a blessing.When that law was read, the people of Judah obeyed it. They sent out of Israel everyone who was from another nation.

They carried the ark into the temple of their god Dagon. They set it down beside the statue of Dagon.The people of Ashdod got up early the next day. They saw the statue of Dagon. There it was, lying on the ground! It had fallen on its face in front of the ark of the Lord. So they picked up the statue of Dagon. They put it back in its place.

We didn’t forget our God. We didn’t spread out our hands in prayer to a false god.If we had, God would have discovered it. He knows the secrets of our hearts.

I won’t look at anything that is evil and call it good. I hate the acts of people who aren’t faithful to you. I won’t have anything to do with those things.I will stay away from those whose hearts are twisted. I won’t have anything to do with what is evil.I will get rid of anyone who tells lies about their neighbor in secret. I won’t put up with anyone whose eyes and heart are proud.

Don’t destroy me together with sinners. Don’t take away my life along with murderers.Their hands are always planning to do evil. Their right hands are full of money that has bought their help.

Peter and John were allowed to leave. They went back to their own people. They reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

With me are riches and honor. With me are lasting wealth and success.My fruit is better than fine gold. My gifts are better than the finest silver.

Jehu the prophet went out to meet him. He was the son of Hanani. Jehu said to the king,“ You shouldn’t help evil people. You shouldn’t love those who hate the Lord. The Lord is angry with you.

In those days I also saw that some men of Judah had married women from Ashdod. Others had married women from Ammon or Moab.Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod. Or they spoke the language of one of the other nations. They didn’t even know how to speak the language of Judah.So I gave them a warning. I cursed them. I beat up some of them. I pulled their hair out. I had them make a promise in God’s name. I said,“ You must promise not to give your daughters to be married to their sons. You must promise not to let their daughters marry your sons. And you must not marry their daughters either.That’s how Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned. He married women from other nations. There wasn’t a king like him anywhere. His God loved him. In fact, God made him king over the whole nation of Israel. But even he was led into sin by women from other lands.