Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament Search This Resource     Navigator Previous Next Verse 13 Chapter 5 Verse 15 Chapter 7          Printer friendly version   Additional Resources  · Burton Coffman  · Darby's Synopsis  · Gill's Exposition  · Jamieson, Fausset, Brown  · Matthew Henry Complete  · Matthew Henry Concise  · People's New Testament  · Scofield Reference Notes  · Treasury of Scripture  · Wesley's Explanatory Notes   Buy This Resource Hardcover $110.00  Show me more …   2 Corinthians 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers (mh gineste eterozugountev apistoiv). No other example of this verb has yet been found, though the adjective from which it is apparently formed, eterozugov (yoked with a different yoke) occurs in Leviticus 19:19 of the union of beasts of different kinds. In Deuteronomy 22:10 we read: "Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together." Literally, "Stop becoming (mh gineste present imperative, not mh genhste aorist subj.) unequally yoked with unconverted heathen (unbelievers)." Some were already guilty. Marriage is certainly included, but other unions may be in mind. Cf. Ephesians 5:7. Paul gives as the reason (gar) for this prohibition five words in questions to distinguish the contrasts. Fellowship (metoxh). Sharing with and followed by associative instrumental case of dikaiosunhi (righteousness) and iniquity (anomiai). A pertinent challenge today when church members wink at violations of laws of the land and laws of God. Communion (koinwnia). Partnership to light (pwti dative case) with (prov), facing darkness.

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