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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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ADMONITION TO FLEE THE FELLOWSHIP OF UNBELIEVERS. 2 Corinthians 6:11...
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BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS. FOR WHAT
FELLOWSHIP HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS? AND WHAT COMMUNION
HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?_...
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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...
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2 Corinthians 6:14 not G3361 be G1096 (G5737) together G2086 (G5723)
unbelievers G571 For G1063 what G5101
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‘ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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RIGHTEOUSNESS
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 10:10). _
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
SIN
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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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)....
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 1
Corinthians 7:39;...
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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...
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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....
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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...