2 Corinthians 6:14-15 NIV

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 6:14-18

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 6:14

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:14

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 ἑτεροζυγειν signifies to leave one's own rank, place, or order, and go into another; and here it must signify not only that they should not associate with the Gentiles in their idolatrous feasts, but that they should not apostatize from Christianity; and the questions which follow show that there was a sort of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:14

Verse 14 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 show themselves docile to him as to a father: he now, in accordance with the rights that belong to him, (608) reproves the fault into which they had fallen. Now we mentioned in the former epistle (609) what this fault was; for, as they imagined that there was nothing that was unlawful for them... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:15

Verse 15 15.What concord has Christ with Belial? As to the etymology of the word Belial, even the Hebrews themselves are not agreed (612) The meaning, however, is not doubtful. (613) For Moses takes a word or thought of Belial (614) to mean a wicked and base thought, (615) and in various instances (616) those who are wicked and abandoned to iniquity, are called men, or sons of Belial. (Deuteronomy 13:13; Jude 19:22; 1 Samuel 2:12.) Hence it is, that Paul has employed the word here to mean the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:1-18

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

An appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his love for them, and separate themselves from evil. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:14

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Ewald, followed by Dean Stanley, Holsten, and others, thinks that here there is a sudden dislocation of the argument, and some have even supposed that the section, 2Co 6:14-7:1, is either an after thought written by the apostle on the margin of the Epistle after it was finished; or even an interpolation. The latter view has arisen from the unusual expressions of the section, and the use of the word "Belial," and the command of Greek shown... read more

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:15

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:14

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