2Cor 6:14-15 | JFB | STEP | 14. Be not — Greek, " Become not." unequally yoked —"yoked with one alien in spirit." The image is from the symbolical precept of the law ( ), "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind"; or the precept ( ), "Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together." Compare , forbidding marriages with the heathen; also . The believer and unbeliever are utterly heterogeneous. Too close intercourse with unbelievers in other relations also is included ( ). fellowship —literally, "share," or "participation." righteousness —the state of the believer, justified by faith. unrighteousness —rather, as always translated elsewhere, "iniquity"; the state of the unbeliever, the fruit of unbelief. light

2 Corinthians 6:14-15

14. Be not—Greek, "Become not."

unequally yoked—"yoked with one alien in spirit." The image is from the symbolical precept of the law (Le 19:19), "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind"; or the precept (De 22:10), "Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together." Compare De 7:3, forbidding marriages with the heathen; also 1Co 7:39. The believer and unbeliever are utterly heterogeneous. Too close intercourse with unbelievers in other relations also is included (2Co 6:16; 1Co 8:10; 10:14).

fellowship—literally, "share," or "participation."

righteousness—the state of the believer, justified by faith.

unrighteousness—rather, as always translated elsewhere, "iniquity"; the state of the unbeliever, the fruit of unbelief.

light—of which believers are the children (1Th 5:5).

15. Belial—Hebrew, "worthlessness, unprofitableness, wickedness." As Satan is opposed to God, and Antichrist to Christ; Belial being here opposed to Christ, must denounce all manner of Antichristian uncleanness [BENGEL].

he that believeth with an infidel—Translate, "a believer with an unbeliever."