What does 2 Corinthians 6:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
Verse 2 Corinthians 6:18. _WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU_] I will act towards you as the most affectionate father can act towards his most tender and best beloved child. _AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUG...
AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU - A father is the protector, counselor, and guide of his children. He instructs them, provides for them, and counsels them in time of perplexity. No relation is more tend...
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)...
A FATHER. for (Greek. _eis._ App-104.). Father. Reference to 2 Samuel 7:14. MY SONS. to Me for (Greek. _eis)_ sons (Greek. huios. App-108.) ALMIGHTY. Greek. _Pantokeater._ In the N.T. only here, and...
_saith the Lord Almighty_ Another combination of various passages. See 2 Samuel 7:14; Isaiah 43:6; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 37:27....
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...
ΕΣΟΜΑΙ, ΈΣΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Предл. ΕΙΣ (G1519) используется по аналогии с еврейской грамматикой для ввода praed. _пот._ (BG, 10f). ΠΑΝΤΟΚΡΆΤΩΡ (G3841) вседержитель;...
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...
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Translate, 'I will be to you in the relation of a Father, and ye shall be to me in the relation of son...
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...
6:18 Lord (g-22) '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...
AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU... — Again we have, as it were, a mosaic of citations: “I will be a Father....” from 2 Samuel 7:14; “Sons and daughters” from Isaiah 43:6; “Saith the Lord Almighty” from...
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...
18._I will be a Father unto you. _This promise does not occur in one passage merely, but is repeated in various instances. Paul has added it with this view, that a recognition of the great honor to wh...
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...
AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU,.... The same is promised to Solomon, 2 Samuel 7:14 and said of Israel, Jeremiah 31:9 which is thought to be referred unto. This is not to be understood of the first comm...
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Ver. 18. _I will be a Father_] The fundamental, meritorious, impulsive, and final causes of this preciou...
_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_...
A FATHER; friend, saviour, guardian, protector, guide, benefactor, and portion. SONS AND DAUGHTERS; like God in temper, and heirs to the eternal glories of his kingdom. ALMIGHTY; infinitely powerful...
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 latter words, which are a promise of God's reception of them who for his sake withdraw from a sinful communion with idolaters and scandalous persons, are taken out of JEREMIAH 31:1,9, and teach us...
And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. [Hosea 1:10; Isaiah 43:6]...
Origen Commentary on John Book I that the apostolic writings are to be pronounced wise and worthy of belief, and that they have great authority, but that they are not on the same level with that "Thu...
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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...
SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY (λεγε Κυριος παντοκρατωρ). 2 Samuel 7:8. This use of εις is a Hebraism for Hebrew _le_ instead of predicate nominative. Παντοκρατωρ (πασ, κρατεω, Ruler of all) is common in...
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...
I WILL BE. Paul paraphrases 2 Samuel 7:14. Paul is saying that this promise is fulfilled in the church (messianic community)! [The Dead Sea Scrolls quote this often, showing that the Qumran community...
_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...
1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:2; Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 3:26; Galatians 4:5; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 48:3; Hosea 1:10; Hosea 1:9; Jeremiah 3:19;...
I will be to you, etc. From 2 Samuel 7:14, where the Septuagint and Hebrew agree. Paul says sons and daughters for son. Almighty [π α ν τ ο κ ρ α τ ω ρ]. The word is peculiar to Revelation, occurring...
And ye shall be to me for sons and for daughters, saith the Lord Almighty — The promise made to Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:6, is here applied to all believers; as the promise made particularly to Joshua...