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NASB | 2 Corinthians 6:14 ¶ Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 6:14 ¶ Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? |
Subject: Understanding by cross referencing. |
Bible Note: Allow me to point out: 1. Regardless of which would cause the "greater hurt" the "hypcritical lifestyle", assuming one is to interpret "cold" as an unbeliever or a believer that has turned away from God, they have both driven the nail and slashed Jesus equally as deep. 2. However, who does the "greater damage" is irrelevant. It is not even speaking of what some term as "lukewarm Christian"; as far as the verse is concerned, there is no such thing. One is either "cold" or "hot", both terms used with reference medicinal waters. To be neither, that is, "lukewarm," is to cease being a believer and forfeit salvation since God will spit him out. God forgives sins; he neither tolerates or countenances sin in any form or degree. God not only desires that all "be righteous through His Son", He desires that all act righteous in the Son "even as he is righteous." Righteousness is not only a position before God, it is the conduct to be lived out and experienced by every believer. |