2 Corinthians 6:11-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

The apostle proceeds to address himself more particularly to the Corinthians, and cautions them against mingling with unbelievers. Here observe, I. How the caution is introduced with a profession, in a very pathetic manner, of the most tender affection to them, even like that of a father to his children, 2 Cor. 6:11-13. Though the apostle was happy in a great fluency of expressions, yet he seemed to want words to express the warm affections he had for these Corinthians. As if he had said, ?O... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:11-13

6:11-13 My dear Corinthians, we have spoken to you without keeping anything back. Our heart lies wide open to you. If there is any constraint between us, it lies, not in us, but in your hearts. Give me fair exchange. I speak as to children. Do you, too, open wide your hearts to us.... Make room for us in your hearts. Paul is speaking with the accents of purest love. The breaches are healed. The quarrels are all made up and love reigns supreme. The phrase that we have translated "Our heart... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:14-18

6:14-18 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 concord can there be with Christ and Belial? What share can the believer have with the unbeliever? What agreement can the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, even as God said, "I will dwell in them and I will walk in them, and I will be their God and they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:11

O ye Corinthians ,.... The apostle having exhorted the ministers of the church at Corinth to take care of their ministry, that they fulfil it, and that it might appear that the Gospel, and gifts fitting them to preach it, were not received in vain by them; all which he strengthens and encourages by his own example; and that of others, addresses the members of the church in a very pathetic manner, saying, our mouth is open to you ; to speak our minds freely to you; we shall hide and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:12

Ye are not straitened in us ,.... The meaning of which is, either you are not brought into straits and difficulties by us; we do not afflict and distress you, or fill you with anguish and trouble; but ye are straitened in your own bowels ; you are distressed by some among yourselves, who ought not to be with you, with whom you should have no fellowship and communion: or thus, you have room enough in our hearts, our hearts are so enlarged with love to you, that they are large enough to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:13

Now for a recompence in the same ,.... That your love to me may answer mine to you; that as you have my heart, I may have yours, and the same room in your heart, as you have in mine. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "having the same recompence"; and the Arabic version renders it, "grant to me the same recompence"; and the Syriac version, "recompense to me my usuries that are with you"; that is, repay me with affection, let love be returned for love. I speak as unto my children ; which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:14

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 civil society and converse with unbelievers; for this is impracticable, then must believers needs go out of the world; this the many natural and civil relations subsisting among men make absolutely necessary; and in many cases is both lawful and laudable, especially when there is any... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:15

And what concord hath Christ with Belial ?.... The word "Belial" is an Hebrew word, and is only used in this place in the New Testament, but often in the Old; this word is differently read and pronounced, some copies read it "Beliar", and accordingly in the Ethiopic version it is "Belhor", and by Jerom read F9 De Nominibus Hebraicis, fol. 106. K. Belvir"; but he observes, that it is more rightly called Belial": in some copies it is "Belias", and so Tertullian F11 De Corona, c. 10. ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?.... That is, what association, confederation, or covenant agreement can the saints, who are the temple of God, have with idols, or their worshippers? no more than the ark of the Lord had with Dagon, or Dagon with the ark; which when brought into his temple, and set by him, the idol fell down, and part of him was broke to pieces: for ye are the temple of the living God ; some copies read "we are", and so the Ethiopic version. The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:17

Wherefore come out from among them ,.... Since they were the temple of the living God, built up an habitation for the Most High; since he resided among them, took his walks in the midst of them, was their God, and they were his people. These words are taken out of Isaiah 52:11 where the several phrases here used may be observed. They seem to be directed to the Israelites, and particularly to the priests and Levites, who bore the vessels of the Lord; and are fitly applied to believers under... read more

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