2 Coríntios 6
Leon Morris · Citado em PreceptAustin
2 Coríntios 6
Morris - Paul assured the Corinthians that their failings had not lessened his love for them or concern for their spiritual welfare. He was concerned, however, that there still existed internal divisions and strained "affections" (the connotation intended by the reference to "bowels") among them. (Defender's Study Bible) Restrained (4729)(stenochoreo from stenos = narrow + choreo = to make room, contain, hold) literally to be made narrow, to compress, restrict to a narrow space, confine, squeeze into a narrow tight place, restrict. Figuratively and passive in the NT, as having a cramped or narrow feeling be restricted, be severely limited, to be constrained, reserved, be unable to express oneself (2Co 6.12). To be completely overwhelmed with difficulty, to be in a circumstance that seems to offer no way out (2Co 4.8). Severe limitations or restrictions. Complete Biblical Library - Incredible Resource - Stenochōreō is a verb meaning “to cram or press into a narrow place” or “to compress into a confined space.” Stenochōreō can be found used of pressing a ship through a narrow waterway, or traveling through a narrow ravine or gorge such as the Cilician Gates, the famous pass through the steep mountains near Paul’s native Tarsus. Septuagint Usage In the Septuagint the word is used of the topography of the boundary of Ephraim (Joshua 17:15), while in Judges it is figuratively used of Delilah’s blandishing pressures upon Samson to force him to reveal the secret of his strength (Judges 16:16). The word is translated in Isaiah 28:20 (LXX 28:19) of a bed that is too narrow or too short to stretch oneself upon in a word of condemnation to the scoffers in Jerusalem. New Testament Usage Stenochōreō finds figurative expression in Paul’s writings to denote difficult circumstances he experienced in the course of his ministry. “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed” (2 Corinthians 4:8). The only other occurrences of stenochōreō are in 2 Corinthians 6:12: “Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.” Paul used stenochōreō in these verses to give the Corinthians a word picture. Paul was not shutting the Corinthians out by “squeezing” them out of his heart. But rather, if there was any shortage of space for affection, it was in their “bowels,” meaning that their hearts had no room to respond with affection towards him Stenochoreo - 2x in NT - crushed(1), restrained(2). = 2 Co. 4:8; 2 Co. 6:12 Uses in Septuagint - Jos. 17:15; Jdg. 16:16; Isa. 28:20; Isa. 49:19; Affections (4698) splagchnon originally referred to the upper abdominal viscera especially the intestines, which the ancients regarded as the seat of affections and emotions, such as anger and love. This word is always in the plural in the NT. The phrase "I feel it in the pit of my stomach" is a modern parallel. And we all know how that feels! So splagchnon refers to that deep, internal caring comparable to the modern expressions of deep feeling such as “broken-hearted” or “gut-wrenching”. Splagchnon - 11v in NT - Lk. 1:78; Acts 1:18; 2 Co. 6:12; 2 Co. 7:15; Phil. 1:8; Phil. 2:1; Col. 3:12; Phlm. 1:7; Phlm. 1:12; Phlm. 1:20; 1 Jn. 3:1 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now in a like exchange--I speak as to children--open wide to us also. KJV 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. NET 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now as a fair exchange– I speak as to my children– open wide your hearts to us also. BGT 2 Corinthians 6:13 τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν, ὡς τέκνοις λέγω, πλατύνθητε καὶ ὑμεῖς. NLT 2 Corinthians 6:13 I am asking you to respond as if you were my own children. Open your hearts to us! ESV 2 Corinthians 6:13 In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also. NIV 2 Corinthians 6:13 As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your hearts also. YLT 2 Corinthians 6:13 and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye! ASV 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. CSB 2 Corinthians 6:13 I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us. MIT 2 Corinthians 6:13 In the same reciprocal manner—I speak as to children—you also should be candid. NKJ 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open. NRS 2 Corinthians 6:13 In return-- I speak as to children-- open wide your hearts also. NAB 2 Corinthians 6:13 As recompense in kind (I speak as to my children), be open yourselves. NJB 2 Corinthians 6:13 In fair exchange -- I speak as though to children of mine -- you must open your hearts too. GWN 2 Corinthians 6:13 I'm talking to you as I would talk to children. Treat us the same way we've treated you. Make a place for us in your hearts too. BBE 2 Corinthians 6:13 Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me. I speak: 1Co 4:14,15 Ga 4:19 1Th 2:11 Heb 12:5,6 1Jn 2:1,12-14 3:7,18 3Jn 1:4 open wide to us also: 2Ki 13:14-19 Ps 81:10 Mt 9:28,29 17:19-21 Mk 6:4-6 11:24 Jas 1:6,7 1Jn 5:14,15 2 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries A FATHERLY COMMAND FOR RECIPROCAL AFFECTION What is Paul's appeal? What is his appeal based on? Now in a like exchange (as a fair exchange)m -I (present tense continually) speak as to children--open wide (platuno) to us also - Phillips Paraphrase = "Do reward me (I talk to you as though you were my own children) with the same complete candour!" NLT = "I am asking you to respond as if you were my own children." Paul is speaking as their spiritual father ("children") and is commanding them (in love) to open wide their hearts just as he had opened wide his heart (2Co 6:11). This is Paul's appeal for the Corinthians to respond to him with open hearts (just as he did to them). Wick Broomall - Ill feeling against Paul had given the Corinthians a bad case of spiritual hardening of the heart. Pulpit Commentary - He begs them to give him “a reward in kind;” in other words, he wishes them to be as frank with him as he has been to them. As unto my children. And therefore, as a spiritual father, I may surely ask for sympathy. St. Paul uses the same metaphor in 1 Cor. 4:14; 1 Thess. 2:11. Be ye also enlarged. Treat me as I have treated you (comp. “Be as I am,” Gal. 4:12). (2 Corinthians 6) Henry Morris - As their spiritual father, Paul urged the Corinthians to respond with appropriate filial love, which should be exhibited by the same largeness of heart which he himself showed for them. This was all he asked by way of recompense.(Defender's Study Bible) Exchange (489)(antimisthia from anti- = in return + misthos = a reward) emphasizes receiving what is due in an exchange. Positive sense = recompense, reward, fair exchange = 2Co 6:13, negative sense = Ro 1:27 = penalty, retribution, requital. Louw-Nida - a recompense based upon what one deserves, either positive or negative, but with special emphasis upon the reciprocal nature of the recompense." BDAG writes that antimisthia "expresses the reciprocal (anti) nature of a transaction as requital based upon what one deserves, recompense, exchange, either in the positive sense of reward or the negative sense penalty, depending on the context. (A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament) Only in Ro 1:27 and 2Co 6:13. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? AMP Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? The Living Bible Don’t be teamed with those who do not love the Lord, for what do the people of God have in common with the people of sin? How can light live with darkness? KJV 2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? NET 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness? BGT 2 Corinthians 6:14 Μὴ γίνεσθε ἑτεροζυγοῦντες ἀπίστοις· τίς γὰρ μετοχὴ δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομίᾳ, ἢ τίς κοινωνία φωτὶ πρὸς σκότος; NLT 2 Corinthians 6:14 Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? ESV 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? NIV 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? YLT 2 Corinthians 6:14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? ASV 2 Corinthians 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? CSB 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? MIT 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? NKJ 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? NRS 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness? NAB 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? NJB 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not harness yourselves in an uneven team with unbelievers; how can uprightness and law-breaking be partners, or what can light and darkness have in common? GWN 2 Corinthians 6:14 Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? B Do not be bound together with unbelievers: Ex 34:16 Lev 19:19 De 7:2,3 22:9-11 Ezr 9:1,2,11,12 10:19 Ne 13:1-3,23-26 Ps 106:35 Pr 22:24 Mal 2:11,15 1Co 5:9 7:39 1Co 15:33 Jas 4:4 for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness: 1Sa 5:2,3 1Ki 18:21 2Ch 19:2 Ps 16:3 26:4,5,9,10 44:20,21 Ps 101:3-5 119:63 139:21,22 Pr 29:27 Joh 7:7 15:18,19 Ac 4:23 1Co 10:21 Eph 5:6-11 1Jn 3:12-14 what fellowship has light with darkness: Pr 8:18,19 Ro 13:12-14 Eph 4:17-20 Eph 5:8-14 Php 2:15 1Th 5:4-8 1Pe 2:9,10 4:2-4 1Jn 1:5-7 2 Corinthians 6 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passage: Leviticus 19:19+ ‘(OT CONCEPT OF NOT INTERMIXING) You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together. Deuteronomy 22:10+ (OT CONCEPT OF NOT INTERMIXING) You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. Ephesians 5:6-11+ (LIGHT-DARK) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers (present imperative with a negative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) with them; 8 for you were formerly darkness (NOTE NOT "IN DARKNESS" BUT ACTUALLY THE PERSONIFICATION OR ESSENCE OF DARKNESS! cf Eph 4:18+), but now you are Light in (locative of sphere) the Lord; walk (present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) as children of Light 9 (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Do not be participate (present imperative with a negative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; John 3:19+ (LIGHT-DARK) “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. James 4:4+ (CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD) You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Romans 12:2+ (NON-CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD) And do not be conformed (present imperative with a negative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. DO NOT BE "MISMATED" OR UNEQUALLY YOKED What words does Paul use to identify unbelievers in 2Co 6:14-18? 2Co 6:14-18 almost seems like a new subject and is admittedly difficult to relate to Paul's defense of his ministry in the preceding passages (2Co 6:3-13). Paul had just called on the saints at Corinth open their hearts and their affection toward him. Recall he had even spoken to them as his spiritual children and so like a good father, he now charges them to separate from the corrupt world around them. (2 Corinthians 6:11-7:1 Watch Out for These) THOUGHT - Don't miss the 5 key "relationship" words Paul choses in this important section on Biblical separation - partnership, fellowship, harmony, common and agreement. Couple this with the 4 commands - do not be bound, come out, separate, do not touch! A proper understanding of these terms in this unique section of Scripture is vital if believers are to enjoy the seven divine promises (2Co 6:16-18) of full fellowship with our Father! James Denney heads the chapter in which he deals with this section, “New Testament Puritanism.” Puritanism congers up in our mind a group of people who separated from the profane things of this present, passing world. (2 Corinthians 6) Ray Stedman offers an interesting explanation of this next section writing "Now, we are taking the obstacles that hinder the ministry of reconciliation (2Co 5:18+). One of them, as we have seen, is restricted affections, holding ourselves in to ourselves, keeping ourselves private people. The second is defiling comprises, getting involved with unbelievers in ways and associations that limit us and keep us from being what we ought to be. F W
2 Coríntios 6
Morris - Paul is using a metaphor here based on Deuteronomy 22:10 and Leviticus 19:19, which forbade plowing with an ox and ass yoked together, or attempting to interbreed animals of different kinds. The clear inference is that believers and unbelievers are so different in character and interests (as well as ultimate destiny) that they should never be "yoked" together in situations requiring strong agreement of attitudes and goals (e.g., marriage, churches, business partnerships, lodges or other organizations with religious overtones). The prohibition is not intended to require complete repudiation of all secular or charitable organizations (note 1 Corinthians 5:10) or friendships. When one's Christian faith is in jeopardy, or his Christian conduct and influence is endangered, then such connections should be severed. One can witness to unbelievers without partaking of their beliefs or sinful behavior. (Defender's Study Bible)