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15 What concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an infidel? 16 How does the temple of God agree with idols? And you are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell among them and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore: Come out from among them, and separate yourselves (says the Lord), and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you,

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15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]?(A) Or what does a believer(B) have in common with an unbeliever?(C) 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(D) For we are the temple(E) of the living God.(F) As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”[b](G)

17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(H)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[c](I)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41