2 Corinthians 6:15

τίς δὲ συμφώνησις κ. τ. λ.: and what concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion has a believer, sc., a Christian (see Acts 16:1; Ephesians 1:1; Colossians 1:2, etc.), with an unbeliever, sc., a heathen (see on 2 Corinthians 4:4 above)? בְּלִיעַל = worthlessness is frequently rendered παράνομος (Deuteronomy 13:13; 1 Kings 20:13) or ἀνομία (Psalms 17:5) by the LXX; they never treat it as a proper name, although Theodotion does so at Judges 19:22, and it is so regarded in later literature (e.g., Test. XII. Patriarch. and Orac. Sibyll., iii., 63, 73). Here it is the personification of ἀνομία, just as Christ is the personification of δικαιοσύνη; the contrast is that between Christ and Satan (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:21). See Charles' Ascension of Isaiah, pp. lv. ff., for the identification of Beliar with Satan. The Hebrew form, Belial, with a substitution of r for l, is written βελίαρ in the best Greek MSS. (see crit. note).