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2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?
Verse 14. _BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS_] This is a military term: keep in your own _ranks_; do not leave the _Christian_ community to join in that of the _heathens_. The verb...
BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS - This is closely connected in sense with the previous verse. The apostle is there stating the nature of the remuneration or recompence which he ask...
8. THE APOSTLE'S EXHORTATIONS AND REJOICINGS. CHAPTER 6:14-7 _ 1. His Exhortations. (2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 .)_ 2. His Rejoicing and Confidence. (2 Corinthians 7:2
2 Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1. These verses appear plainly out of place. They break what is otherwise a close connexion between 2 Corinthians 6:13 and...
Do not allow yourselves to become joined in an alien yoke with unbelievers. What partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? What fellowship can darkness have with light? What conc...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
BE. Become. UNEQUALLY YOKED. Greek. _heterozugeo_. Only here. TOGETHER WITH. to. UNBELIEVERS. Greek. _apistos._ See 2 Corinthians 4:4. FELLOWSHIP. Partaking, or share. Greek _metoche._ Only here....
_Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers_ Dean Stanley observes on the "remarkable dislocation of the argument here." But the connection of thought is not difficult to trace. The only rewa...
ΜῊ ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ ἙΤΕΡΟΖΥΓΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ� (2 Corinthians 4:4). BECOME _not_ INCONGRUOUSLY _yoked to unbelievers_. ‘Do not become heterogeneous yokefellows with heathen: they belong to one species, you to quite anot...
14–7:1. Warning against heathen modes of thought and life. The Corinthians are to keep themselves apart from such influence. There is here no unintelligible change of topic; and it is exaggeration to...
_BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-18:_ Obviously it is a very unwise choice for a Christian to marry a non-Christian. But the thing that Paul forbids here is for Christians to have close asso...
О связи со 2 Corinthians 6:14 — 7:1 _см._ Martin; J. A. Fitzmyer, "Qumran and the Interpolated Paragraph in 2 Cor 6:14-1:1" ESB, 205-17; ΓΊΝΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становит...
DISCOURSE: 2028 SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD ENJOINED 2 Corinthians 6:14. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what commun...
BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED, &C.— "Be not associates in marriage, in worship, or in any thing with infidels; for what union can there be," &c. See on 2 Corinthians 6:11....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture The Plea For Acceptance_ 2 Corinthians 6:11-18 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 In Associations (2 Corinthians 6:14-18; 2 Corinthians 7:1) 14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowshi...
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? BE YE NOT - Greek, 'Become not.' UNE...
16 Paul had been proclaiming the kingdom, with Christ and the nation which is related to Him by physical ties at its head. Entrance into that kingdom was by a birth from above. But now the figure of b...
6:14 diversely (d-3) 'Unequally,' as in A.V., is a consequence, but not stated in the text, which says 'diversely,' referring to the Levitical law, which forbade different animals to be yoked together...
I, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Now it is as coöperators with God in this work that we exhort you not to make the grace of God fruitless in your life by continuing in sin. (2) For God has told us in Scripture of a...
UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS] The ever-present and ever-pressing temptation and danger was that they might be led into immorality through the abominable rites of idol-worship: cp. 1 Corin...
PARAPHRASE. 'Do not become entangled in alliances of any kind with unbelievers to your spiritual hurt. There is no relation possible between holiness and sin, between light and darkness, (15) between...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 V1 As people who work with God, we ask you this again and again. ‘Do not receive God’s kindness in such a way that it d...
BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. — We seem at first to enter, by an abrupt transition, upon a new line of exhortation. The under-current of thought is, however, not difficult to tr...
CHAPTER 18 NEW TESTAMENT PURITANISM. 2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 7:1 (R.V) THIS is one of the most peculiar passages in the New Testament. Even a careless reader must feel that there is someth...
to 2 Corinthians 7:1. PARENTHETICAL. HE WARNS THEM AGAINST TOO FAMILIAR ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR HEATHEN NEIGHBOURS. These verses are somewhat perplexing, inasmuch as they seem to interrupt the appeal o...
Μὴ γίνεσθε ἑτεροζυγοῦντες κ. τ. λ.: _be not_ (mark that the pres. tense γίνεσθε indicates the beginning of a state, _sc._, “do not become”) _unequally yoked with unbelievers_, the constr. being “be no...
SEPARATE FROM ALL UNCLEANNESS 2 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and love, was so...
The injunction, "We intreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain," harmonizes in method with many others used by Paul. Let your conduct harmonize with your position in grace. With what po...
VERSE 14 This appeal is based on the aforementioned love. All relationships with unbelievers that hinder our service to God should be stopped. So long as we can have peaceful relationships with unbeli...
(7) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (7) Now he rebukes them boldly, becau...
Bear not the yoke together with unbelievers. He does not mean, that they must wholly avoid their company, which could not be done, but not to have too intimate a friendship with them, not to marry wit...
(11) O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. (12) Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. (13) Now for a recompense in the same, I (speak as...
14._Be not yoked _As if regaining his authority, he now reproves them more freely, because they associated with unbelievers, as partakers with them in outward idolatry. For he has exhorted them to sho...
Paul had said that God exhorted by his means. In Chapter 6 the affection of the apostle carries on by the Spirit this divine work, beseeching the Corinthians that it might not be in vain in their case...
BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS,.... This seems to be an allusion to the law in Deuteronomy 22:10 and to be a mystical explanation of it; and is to be understood not as forbidding...
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Ver. 14. _Be not unequally yoked_] Dare...
_Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers_ Christians with Jews or heathen, godly persons with the ungodly, spiritual with such as are carnal. The apostle particularly speaks of marriage; but the reaso...
BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS; intimately connected-Christians with heathen; believers in Christ with unbelievers. All such connections as tend to increase wickedness or encourag...
The message of reconciliation having been received by the Corinthians, now the Lord's servants, as fellow-workmen in unity, had further entreaty to make of them. Their profession of faith would be tes...
11-18 It is wrong for believers to join with the wicked and profane. The word unbeliever applies to all destitute of true faith. True pastors will caution their beloved children in the gospel, not to...
OLBGrk; BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS: they too much restrain the sense of this general precept, who either limit it to religious communion with idolaters, or to civil communion...
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers [a figure drawn from the law-- Deuteronomy 22:9-11]:_ for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?_...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians "What communion hath light with darkness? or Christ with Belial? Or what portion hath he that believeth with an infidel? or the temple of God with idols? "[117] C...
2 Corinthians 6:14 not G3361 be G1096 (G5737) together G2086 (G5723) unbelievers G571 For G1063 what G5101
HAVING CONFIRMED HIS OWN CREDENTIALS AND HIS OWN WAY OF LIVING HE PLEADS FOR A THEM TO TURN FROM ALL THAT MIGHT HINDER THEM AND FOR THEIR EQUAL FULL AND EXCLUSIVE RESPONSE TO GOD AND TO CHRIST (2 CORI...
‘ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion has light with darkness? And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion h...
2 Corinthians 6:14. BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS. The figure is drawn from the heterogeneous yoking of animals in a team (compare Deuteronomy 22:10, “Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an...
BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS (μη γινεσθε ετεροζυγουντες απιστοις). No other example of this verb has yet been found, though the adjective from which it is apparently formed, ετεροζυγος (y...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 10:10). _ UNRIGHTEOUSNESS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
2 Corinthians 6:14 Communion with God. I. We can require no proof that God and the wicked man cannot be said to have fellowship or communion, though God be about that wicked man's path and spieth out...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain._ God's servants are called to take many different positions. They are ambassa...
CONTENTS: Paul's ministry to the Corinthians. Appeal to separation and cleansing. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The ministers of the Gospel should look upon themselves as Go...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then as workers together_ with the Lord, who has by himself purged our sins, and reconciled all things to himself on the cross, and has commissioned us to continue the ministry...
DO NOT TRY. Paul has just told them: "Open wide your hearts!" This phrase has a bad meaning in the Law (Deuteronomy 11:16). Too much tolerance would place them in a dangerous situation! Therefore he g...
_Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers._ UNEQUALLY YOKED This peculiar word has a cognate form in the law which forbids the breeding of hybrid animals (Leviticus 19:19). God has establi...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14 DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS. This command, which is Paul’s main point in 2 Corinthians 6:14, w
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts them not to neglect the proffered grace of reconciliation spoken of at the end of the last chapter. II. He points out (ver. 4) the qualities required...
_HOMILETIC ANALYSIS.— 2 Corinthians 6:14 to 2 Corinthians 7:1_ The paragraph may be gathered up round the central figure— _The Temple of the Living God_.—The Church collectively, then, is:— I. THE...
EXPOSITION The methods and conditions of an apostolic ministry (2 Corinthians 6:1). Appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his affection and separate themselves from evil (2 Corinthians 6:11)....
We then, as workers together with him (2 Corinthians 6:1), And what a glorious way to view the ministry. I'm working with Jesus, working together with Him. [We] beseech you also that ye receive not t...
1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 7:39;...
Unequally yoked [ε τ ε ρ ο ζ υ γ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Only here in the New Testament. Not in classical Greek, nor in Septuagint, though the kindred adjective eJterozugov of a diverse kind, occurs Leviticus 1...
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers — Christians with Jews or heathens. The apostle particularly speaks of marriage. But the reasons he urges equally hold against any needless intimacy with them....
The holy apostle closes this chapter with an exhortation to avoid all intimacy with idolators, either in civil affairs, in marriages, or in religious worship, lest they be brought into communion with...