2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1

Warning About Non-Christians

¹⁴You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together. ¹⁵How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a nonbeliever? ¹⁶The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.” ⁿ

¹⁷“Leave those people,

and be separate, says the Lord.

Touch nothing that is unclean,

and I will accept you.”

¹⁸“I will be your father,

and you will be my sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

7Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.