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The "Unequal Yoke" Metaphor
Commentators explain that "unequally yoked" is a powerful metaphor drawn from Old Testament law (Deut. 22:10), which forbade plowing with two different kinds of animals. This imagery highlights the fundamental incompatibility between believers and unbelievers. Their core principles, spiritual nature, and ultimate goals are so different that forming binding partnerships is spiritually unnatural and hazardous.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
18th Century
Theologian
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. This is closely connected in sense with the previous verse. The apostle is stating th…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers (μη γινεσθε ετεροζυγουντες απιστοις). No other example of this verb has yet been found, th…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
19th Century
Bishop
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.—We seem at first to enter, by an abrupt transition, upon a new line …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
19th Century
Preacher
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
Not in any way – neither in marriage, which is the chief of all forms for yoki…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 6:14–16
Paul has just appealed to the Corinthians for mutual openness in affection and in speech. His own heart is open wide to them, but both he and they …
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
16th Century
Theologian
Be not yoked. As if regaining his authority, he now reproves them more freely because they associated with unbelievers, as partakers with …
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 6:14
17th Century
Pastor
Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers This seems to be an allusion to the law in ([Reference Deuteronomy 2…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 6:11–18
17th Century
Minister
It is wrong for believers to associate with the wicked and profane. The word unbeliever applies to all who are lacking true faith. True pastors wil…