Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Corinthians 6:15
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?
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?
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...
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
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...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH, &C.— Or, _hath a believer,_ &c....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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._,...
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 so...
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...
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...
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)_...
(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...
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
BELIAL; Satan....
AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH WITH AN INFIDEL?...
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:15 And G1161 what G5101 accord G4857 Christ G5547 with G4314 Belial G955 Or G2228 what G5101
‘ 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...
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 6:15. 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...
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...
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 Go...
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...
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,...
_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...
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 opp...
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)....
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...
1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 John 5:11; 1 Kings 18:21;...
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...
What concord hath Christ — Whom ye serve. With Belial — To whom they belong....