What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Corinthians 6:16 in context
2 Corinthians 6:13–18
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Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
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Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
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What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
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Selected verse
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”†
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Therefore
“‘Come out from among them,
and be separate,’ says the Lord.
‘Touch no unclean thing.
I will receive you.
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I will be to you a Father.
You will be to me sons and daughters,’
says the Lord Almighty.”
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