How can light have fellowship with darkness

How can light and darkness live together? Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? International Standard Version Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness?

What fellowship can light have with darkness? Literal Standard Version Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness? NET Bible 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? New Heart English Bible Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity?

Weymouth New Testament Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?

World English Bible Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Young's Literal Translation Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? Additional Translations Genesis and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, Deuteronomy Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Ezra Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

Ephesians Therefore do not be partakers with them. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? Treasury of Scripture Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? Now he turns to a direct command: that believers in Christ not be yoked with unbelievers. The imagery of the "yoke" brings to mind the rigid harness used to keep livestock locked together and pulling in a consistent direction.

The Old Testament used a form of the word to forbid mating cattle of different species Leviticus The Law also forbids harnessing together an ox and a donkey to plow a field Deuteronomy The point of this phrase will soon become clear. Those in Christ are something other than those who are not in Christ. They are not the same—spiritually—and should not be locked together into any kind of binding relationship. Paul begins to ask a series of questions to show the absurdity of a believer in Jesus being "unequally yoked" with an unbeliever.

Paul asks: what cooperation can there be between virtue and wickedness? Those in Christ have "become the righteousness of God" 2 Corinthians Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers.

What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness? What common interest can there be between goodness and evil? How can light and darkness share life together?

How can there be harmony between Christ and the devil? What business can a believer have with an unbeliever? What common ground can idols hold with the temple of God? Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship does righteousness have with unrighteousness? Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? How can light live with darkness?

How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands?

But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. I want you all for myself. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion has light with darkness? Do not be unevenly yoked with unbelievers; for what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers.

For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? 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 bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Do not associate with unbelievers. For what basis can there be for a partnership between righteousness and lawlessness? What do light and darkness have in common? 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?

Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right and wrong have in common? Can light and darkness be friends? Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?

For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Do not be joined together with those who do not belong to Christ. How can that which is good get along with that which is bad?

How can light be in the same place with darkness? How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness?