Recently we were challenged on 2 Corinthians Chapter 6, specifically the 14

verse. As we usedthe verse in a teaching concerning maintaining friendships with the world. The challenge wasthat in this persons opinion the verse was strictly referring to marriage of a believer and anunbeliever. This is not the case even though that view is supported as well. But it was/is not thecentral basis of the verse.Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness andlawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness?(2 Corinthians 6:14 cjb)Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousnesswith unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?(2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV)Now it is true that I hound folks to take scripture in context. And I am guilty of using a singleverse with out contextual back up in this case. So to correct this error, I want to approach thisin context for clarity and accountability, so if you do not have your bible's and paper handy nowmight be a good time to grab them.It is a well know premise that Rav Shaul/Rabbi Paul pleaded with the Corinthians to separatethemselves from the unbelievers, but this is not the first time we have been told not toassociate with those who do not have faith.In

Deut. 7:2b,3; [2b]And when the L-rd thy G-d shal smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make NO covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: [3]Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son,nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

And the rest of the chapter explains why we are told NOT to consort/make covenants/be yokedwith unbelievers,

because they will turn us/our children/people away from G-d.

We are aHoly People set apart from the World to be a light and an example to the world of what G-dexpects and has for them. It continues to say that if we Keep the statutes, commandments and judgments that G-d will keep the covenant and the mercy he swore to Avraham, and He wouldbless us, love us, multiply us, and our fruit/seed, lands, crops etc and that we would be blessedabove all peoples. And this continues through the entire chapter, and culminates with verse 26where a final warning is given;

26; Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it IS a cursed thing.

Now let me add that this is reinforced in 2 John

2 John 1:1-13 KJV The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; (2) For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.(3) Grace be with you, mercy,and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.(4) I

rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.(5) And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.(6) And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.(7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.(8) Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your

house, neither bid him God speed: (11) F

or he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.(12) Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.(13) The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.

In M'lakhim Alef/1

Kings 18:21 Elijah asked B'nei Yisra'el how long they were going to be hungup with or hop between two teachings/opinions. Basically asked them how long they were goingto keep one foot in G-d's camp and the other in the camp of theworld/heathen/infidel/apostates. They (the children of Yisra'el) were torn between the two,they wanted what G-d had for them and/but they did not want to give up what they had left inthe world. And again Adonai had to demonstrate the difference between Himself and the godsof the world, and Eliyahu provided the challenge and the other gods no matter how loudly thepeople called on them the gods of the world could do nothing, and Hashem completely consumedthe offering, the altar, and the water itself around the altar. (vvs 18-40)So today we have the grace of the Most High G-d and His salvation for us and we still want thethings of the World more than we want Him and His promises, blessings, and grace.If we look back at 1 Corinthians 10:14-21, plainly said you can not live or partake of both worlds,either you are in G-ds world or in mans. But you can not have both.We are shown in v 13 “There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but G-d is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with thetemptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.Ie; If you fall for the temptations of the world then you CHOSE to sin. It was/is strictly achoice.Look at Ephesians 5:6-11,

Ephesians 5:6-11 KJV Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.(7) Be not ye therefore partakers with them.(8) For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as