12. There is no lack of room for you in [our hearts], but you lack room in your own affections [for us].
13. By way of return then, do this for me–I speak as to children–open wide your hearts also [to us].
14. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
15. What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
16. What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. [Exod. 25:8; 29:45; Lev. 26:12; Jer. 31:1; Ezek. 37:27.]