12. We are not holding back our love from you. But you are holding back your love from us.
13. I speak to you as if you were my children. It is only fair that you open your hearts wide to us also.
14. Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right and wrong have in common? Can light and darkness be friends?
15. How can Christ and Satan agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16. How can the temple of the true God and the statues of other gods agree? We are the temple of the living God. God has said, "I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people." (Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)
17. "So come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch anything that is not pure and clean. Then I will receive you." (Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41)
18. "I will be your Father. You will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord who rules over all."+/ (2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8)