OET-RV 2COR section

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Don’t be teamed with unbelievers

2Cor 6:14—7:1

6:14 Don’t be teamed with unbelievers

14 Don’t be teamed together with unbelievers, because how can there be a partnership between obeying and disobeying God, or in other words, how can light socialise with darkness? 15 So what harmony can Messiah have with Satan, or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 [ref]What agreement can God’s temple have with idols, because we are the temple of the living God? As God said,

‘I will live with them

and I will walk among them.

I will be their God

and they will be my people.’

17 [ref]Therefore the master says,

‘Come out from among them and be separate.

Touch nothing that’s ceremonially prohibited

and then I will accept you.

18 [ref]I will be a Father for you,

and you will be my sons and daughters,’

says the all-powerful master.

7 Dear brothers and sisters, because we have those promises we should avoid doing anything that would defile our bodies or our spirits, thus staying pure due to our respect for God.

6:16: a 1Cor 3:16; 6:19; b Lev 26:12; Eze 37:27.

6:17: Isa 52:11.

6:18: 2Sam 7:14; 1Ch 17:13; Isa 43:6; Jer 31:9.

Collected OET-RV cross-references

1Cor 3:16:

16 Don’t you realise that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s spirit lives inside you all?[ref]

3:16: 1Cor 6:19; 2Cor 6:16.

6:19:

19 Surely you all know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit who comes from God and lives within you.[ref] No, you don’t actually own yourselves