2 Coríntios 6
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2 Coríntios 6:2
Paul is teaching that God's grace in Christ was predestined. God decreed that his mercy would be poured out in this way, that help would be lavished on those who called for it in the name of Christ. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:3
By his faith and vigilance, Paul is cutting away everything which might cause the negligent to stumble, out of fear that their sluggishness might present his disciples with a cause for stumbling. Fault would have been found with their ministry if they did not exemplify in their deeds the things they were teaching. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:4
Servants of God teach without flattery, so that they might please him whose servants they are, unlike the false apostles, who sought only to please their hearers. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:7
The word of truth was in Paul's teaching, because he conveyed no message other than the one which he had received from the Lord. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:8
Paul is saying that he was recognized as a sincere and faithful preacher by those who believed that the gospel was the glory of God. Even to those who thought that the gospel was vile, he presented himself as a faithful servant of God and was not afraid to say things which they would have been scandalized to hear. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:9
Those who hated the apostles thought that they were dying every day of their lives as the price for their wickedness. But because the apostles were preaching with God's approval, they kept being rescued from death by the help of Christ. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:11
Paul is saying this because of the freedom he enjoyed in a pure conscience. A mind with a bad conscience is afraid to speak, loses its train of thought and makes verbal slips. People whose heart is enlarged are happy with themselves because they are confident that they have behaved well. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:16
It is obvious that the things Paul lists are opposites and that we are to flee from the ones and cling to the others. No one can serve two masters. Christ has proclaimed that we should go away from the devil, who wants to represent himself falsely as God. He has promised us eternal life, so we should be strangers to the treachery and wrong-headedness of unbelievers. He has forbidden the worship of idols because they are incompatible with the temple of God. We are temples of the living God. There is nothing more damaging to us than idols, because they tempt us to depart from our faith in the one true God. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
2 Coríntios 6:18
God wants us to be set apart from all contamination so that he can receive us as his children. By this testimony Paul exhorts us to a pure life. He shows that Jesus Christ was already our Lord in ancient times and was predestined to receive us in the fondness of his love. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES