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2 Corinthians 6:15

2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 Corinthians 6:15 Belial. This name for Satan was used in Judaism in Paul’s day. It was often used to stress Satan as an opponent of God’s. This fits Paul’s concern with his opponents.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHAT CONCORD - (συμφώνησις sumphōnēsis). Sympathy, unison. This word refers properly to the unison or harmony produced by musical instruments, where there is a chord. What accordance, what unis...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CONCORD. Greek. _sumphonesie._ Compare the verb in Acts 5:9 and the adjective in 1 Corinthians 7:5. CHRIST. App-98. BELIAL. Only here in N.T.. Hebr. word, meaning worthlessness, Occurs several times...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Belial_ This word, derived from two Hebrew ones signifying -of no profit," was used in the O.T. (e.g. Deuteronomy 13:13; 1 Samuel 2:12) in the phrase -child," -son" or -daughter of Belial," to signif...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ (אBCP, Latt. Copt.) rather than Χριστῷ (DFGKL, Syrr.), and ΒΕΛΊΑΡ (אBCLP) rather than ΒΕΛΊΑΝ (DK, some cursives and _plurimi codices_ known to Jerome). 15. ΤΊΣ ΔῈ ΣΥΜΦΏΝΗΣΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ ΠΡῸΣ ΒΕΛ...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΣΥΜΦΏΝΗΣΙΣ (G4857) гармония, согласие. Гл., родственный этому имени, используется в папирусах в _знач._ "соглашаться" "действовать в согласии" (ММ), ΒΕΛΙΆΡ (G955)_евр._ слово со _знач._ "бесполезный...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH, &C.— Or, _hath a believer,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? BELIAL. So B g, Vulgate. But C 'Aleph ('), 'Beliar.' Hebrew, 'worthlessness, unprofitableness.' Since...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CHRIST WITH BELIAL] For the idea cp. Matthew 6:24 BELIAL] Here used as a synonym for the devil. The meaning of this name is doubtful. There is no trace of the worship of any god under this name. It is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? — The passage is remarkable as being the only occurrence of the name in the New Testament, all the more so because it does not appear in the Greek version of the...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τίς δὲ συμφώνησις κ. τ. λ.: _and what concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion has a believer, sc._, a Christian (see Acts 16:1; Ephesians 1:1; Colossians 1:2, etc.), _with an unbeliever, sc._,...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 15 Those trying to force us into a mold of wickedness must be shunned. Belial means worthless fellow (Satan). Christians are buildings, or temples, consecrated to the service of God. In what app...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what (k) part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (k) What can there be between them?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Such as have cast off the yoke of God are called children of Belial. (John viii. 44.) _Belial, in its radical signification, means without yoke. (Bible de Vence)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 pronounc...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? Ver. 15. _What concord hath Christ_] Those moderators that plead for a correspondence with Popery, would...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    BELIAL; Satan....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH WITH AN INFIDEL?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ADMONITION TO FLEE THE FELLOWSHIP OF UNBELIEVERS. 2 Corinthians 6:11...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? By _Belial, _ in this text, very good interpreters understand the devil; judging that the apostle here opposeth Christ, who is the Head of Believers and of th...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    And what concord hath Christ with Belial? [Literally, "worthlessness," "depravity." The term is here used as a synonym for Satan, Who is the impersonation of impurity] _or what portion hath a believer...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 6:15 And G1161 what G5101 accord G4857 Christ G5547 with G4314 Belial G955 Or G2228 what G5101

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ 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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 6:15. AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? From the use of this proper name, and the antithesis with Christ, it evidently is meant (like Beelzebub in Matthew 12:24) as a synonym for...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    CONCORD (συμφωνησις). Symphony. Late word from συμφωνεω, only here and ecclesiastical writers, though συμφωνημα in the papyri.BELIAL (Βελιαλ). Transliteration of Hebrew word for worthlessness and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    CHRIST AND THE DEVIL. It would be unthinkable to expect Christ and the Devil to work together (but some are saying this now)! [Belial is a name for the Devil, which appears in late Jewish literature,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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)....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 John 5:11; 1 Kings 18:21;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Concord [σ υ μ φ ω ν η σ ι ς]. Only here in the New Testament. From sun together, fwnh voice. Primarily of the concord of sounds. So the kindred sufwnia, A. V., music, see on Luke 14:25. Compare sumfw...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What concord hath Christ — Whom ye serve. With Belial — To whom they belong....

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