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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now for a recompence in the same, There must be some wages for this blessed work. The apostle wisely puts it on that footing, as if, surely, they were indebted to him, but the payment that he seeks is, of course, no personal gain to him; he only puts it in that form, but it is a gain to them. 2Co_6:13. (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 forbidding civil society and converse with unbelievers; for this is impracticable, then must believers needs go out of the world; this the many natural and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: Not in any way, — neither in marriage which is the chief of all forms for yoking, nor yet in business or other partnerships. 2Co_6:14. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? You must be in the same world with them, but keep...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 pronounced, some copies read it "Beliar", and accordingly in the Ethiopic version it is "Belhor", and by Jerom read (i) Belvir"; but he observes, that it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?.... That is, what association, confederation, or covenant agreement can the saints, who are the temple of God, have with idols, or their worshippers? no more than the ark of the Lord had with Dagon, or Dagon with the ark; which when brought into his temple, and set by him, the idol fell down,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore come out from among them,.... Since they were the temple of the living God, built up an habitation for the Most High; since he resided among them, took his walks in the midst of them, was their God, and they were his people. These words are taken out of Isa 52:11 where the several phrases here used may be observed. They seem to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And will be a father unto you,.... The same is promised to Solomon, 2 Samuel 7:14 and said of Israel, Jeremiah 31:9 which is thought to be referred unto. This is not to be understood of the first commencement of this relation, as though God now began to be their Father; nor indeed of the first manifestation of it, which had been already made to...