What does 2 Corinthians 6:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,"
Verse 17. _WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM_] Is it not plain from this and the following verse that God would be their God only on the ground of _their taking him for such_, and that this depended...
WHEREFORE - Since you are a special people. Since God, the holy and blessed God, dwells with you and among you. COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM - That is, from among idolaters and unbelievers; from a frivol...
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 .) The first exhor...
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 2 Corinthians 7:2: they introduce a new...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
FROM AMONG. out of _(Greek. ek._ App-104.) the midst of. LORD. App-98. a. Quoted from Isaiah 52:11. THE. an, i.e. any. RECEIVE. Greek. _eisdeclomai._ Only here....
_Wherefore come out from among them_ A combination of Isaiah 52:11 with Ezekiel 20:34. This passage must be read in conjunction with 1 Corinthians 5:10, and must be understood not of absolute separati...
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...
ΈΞΈΛΘΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΆΦΟΡΊΣΘΗΤΕ _aor. imper. pass._ от ΑΦΟΡΊΖΩ (G873) отделять; _pass._ быть отделенным, ΆΚΑΘΆΡΤΟΣ (G169) нечистый. ΆΠΤΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med....
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 comm...
AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD,— As God's promises of dwelling in a peculiar manner among the _Jews_ obliged them to separate themselves from the converse of their heathen neighbours, that they mi...
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...
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, From Isaiah 52:11. Paul, as inspired, gives variations sanctioned by...
17 Isa_52:11; LXX, with alterations. Paul is not misquoting from memory, as is usually supposed. He makes inspired alterations to suit the occasion. 2 What a tender yet cutting rebuke to the Corinthia...
6:17 Lord, (g-14) 'Lord' is a proper name, answering to Jehovah. God, who in the Old Testament took the name of Jehovah with Israel, and of Shaddai (Almighty) with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, takes the...
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...
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 do...
WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM. — Another composite quotation follows, beginning with Isaiah 52:11. In their primary historical sense, the words were addressed as to the priests and Levites who we...
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...
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 s...
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...
(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...
17._Wherefore come out from the midst of them. _This exhortation is taken from Isaiah 52:11, where the Prophet, when foretelling the deliverance, at length addresses the priests in these terms. For he...
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...
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 th...
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean _thing_; and I will receive you, Ver. 17. _And be ye separate_] For gross idolatry and for fundamenta...
_Wherefore_ Encouraged by this gracious promise, and that you may obtain the fulfilment of it; _come out from among them_ Withdraw yourselves from all intimate society with them; _and be ye separate_...
COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM; do not unite with them, nor encourage or connive at any of their idolatrous or wicked practices. Leviticus 11:44; 1 Peter 1:15-16....
ADMONITION TO FLEE THE FELLOWSHIP OF UNBELIEVERS. 2 Corinthians 6:11...
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...
The apostle here quoteth words out of the Old Testament, no where to be found there syllabically, without variation, but keeping to the sense of them, which is a thing very usual with the penmen of th...
Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord [Isaiah 52:11], _And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you_,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V "Wherefore also go forth from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be to you for...
2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore G1352 out G1831 (G5628) from G1537 among G3319 them G846 And G2532 separate G873 (G5682) says G3004 (G5719) Lord G2962 G2532 not G3361 touch G680 (G5732) unclean G169 And...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:17. WHEREFORE, COME YE OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NO UNCLEAN THING. We have here another quotation, from Isaiah 52:11, in which Israel is prophe...
SAITH THE LORD (λεγε Κυριος). Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 20:33. Cf. Revelation 18:4.UNCLEAN THING (ακαθαρτου). Or unclean person. Genitive case is the same for both....
COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM Separation, Summary: (1) Separation in Scripture is twofold: "from" whatever is contrary to the mind of God; and "unto" God Himself. The underlying principle is that in a...
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 G...
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...
AND SO. Paul paraphrases Isaiah 52:11 to show they must separate themselves from the false teachers who make the messianic community (church) _unclean_ by their unholy conduct and their distorted teac...
_Wherefore come ye out from among them, and be ye separate._ SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD When a person conversant with the vegetable productions of the earth, observes in the forest a plant whose prope...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17 THEREFORE. Paul explains what it means to be the new covenant people of God with three commands from Isaiah 52:11 and three promises from Ezekiel 20:34; 2 Samu...
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). 2 C...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:1; Acts 2:40; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 6:21; Isaiah 52:11; Jeremiah 51:6; John 6:37; John 6:38; Numbers 16:21; Numbers 16:26;...
Come out, etc. Isaiah 52:11; Isaiah 52:12, after the Septuagint, with several changes....
Touch not the unclean person — Keep at the utmost distance from him. And I will receive you — Into my house and family. Isaiah 52:11; Zephaniah 3:19....
As if the apostle had said "Go not then to the idol's temples, join not with idolaters in communion to avoid persecution; but come out from amongst them, as an holy people separated to the Lord, and d...