2 Corinthians 6:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? ”

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers - This is closely connected in sense with the previous verse. The apostle is there stating the nature of the remuneration or recompence which h...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(7) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (7) Now he rebukes them boldly, bec...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 2 Corinthians 7:2 : they introd...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Be . Become. unequally yoked . Greek. heterozugeo . Only here. together with . to. unbelievers . Greek. apistos. See 2 Corinthians 4:4 . fellowship . Partaking, or share. Greek metoche....
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 th...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2028 SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD ENJOINED 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 . Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and w...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Be ye not unequally yoked together with...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Be ye not unequally yoked, &c.— "Be not associates in marriage, in worship, or in any thing with infidels; for what union can there be," &c. See on 2 Corinthians 6:11 .
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Be ye not - Greek, 'Become not.'...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 o...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. — We seem at first to enter, by an abrupt transition, upon a new line of exhortation. The under-current of thought is, however, not difficult to...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 NEW TESTAMENT PURITANISM. 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ; 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 ther...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Separate from All Uncleanness 2 Corinthians 6:11-18 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1-4 Paul's love failed to be appreciated by his converts because the channel of receptiveness, that is, of their faith and...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 p...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 a...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 forbid...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Ver. 14. Be not unequally yoked ] Da...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 reas...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - L. 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 te...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cautions against Mingling with Unbelievers. A. D. 57. 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is op...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: they too much restrain the sense of this general precept, who either limit it to religious communion with idolaters, or to civil commun...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 C...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

righteousness ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 10:10 ). unrighteousness Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 Communion with God. I. We can require no proof that God and the wicked man cannot be said to have fellowship or communion, though God be about that wicked man's path and spieth...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 amba...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 minist...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 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 e...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The methods and conditions of an apostolic ministry ( 2 Corinthians 6:1-47 ). Appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his affection and separate themselves from evil ( 2 Corinthians...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Admonition to Flee the Fellowship of Unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:11-18
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 15:33 ; 1 Corinthians 5:9 ; 1 Corinthians 7:39 ; 1 John 1:5-7 ; 1 John 3:12-14 ; 1 Kings 18:21 ; 1 Peter 2:10 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 1 Peter 4:2-4 ; 1 Samuel 5...
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers — Christians with Jews or heathens. The apostle particularly speaks of marriage. But the reasons he urges equally hold against any needless intimacy with the...

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 6:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes