भाष्य सध्या फक्त इंग्रजीत उपलब्ध आहे. मराठी भाषांतर प्रगतीपथावर आहे.
2 Corinthians 6 — Come Out From Among Them, and Be Ye Separate
As workers together with God, Paul beseeches the Corinthians not to receive the grace of God in vain — behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. He catalogs his credentials as a minister: in much patience, in afflictions, in stripes, in imprisonments; by pureness, by knowledge, by love unfeigned; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. His heart is enlarged toward them; he begs them to be enlarged in return. Then the great call to separation: be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers — for ye are the temple of the living God. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you.
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)”
— 2 Corinthians 6:2
- v.1-2 Now is the day of salvation
- v.3-10 The credentials of a true minister
- v.11-18 Enlarged hearts and the call to separation
Paul's résumé is a list of sufferings before it is a list of skills. The authenticating marks of ministry in this catalog are endurance, purity, and love — not eloquence, numbers, or acclaim.
In much patience heads the list. The first credential of God's servant is staying power — remaining under the load without quitting or souring.
The paradoxes of the gospel life. Sorrow and joy coexist; poverty enriches others; the man with empty hands holds everything. The world's ledgers cannot audit a Christian.
Possessing all things — because joined to the Heir of all things (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). The believer's net worth is calculated in Christ, not in coin.
The image is from Deuteronomy 22:10 — ox and ass cannot plow together; the yoke torments both. Binding alliances with unbelief — marriage, partnership, worship — force the believer to pull against his own nature.
Five rhetorical questions follow, each answering itself. This is not a call to isolation from the world (1 Corinthians 5:9-10) but to freedom from entangling yokes within it.
The deepest reason for separation: the believer is God's dwelling. A temple cannot host idols in its courts. The covenant formula — I will be their God — runs from Leviticus to Revelation, and it claims the whole house.
Dwell in them, and walk in them. Not visits but residence. God does not rent a room in the believer; He inhabits and moves through the entire life.
Separation has a promise attached: I will receive you. What is left behind is more than repaid by Who receives. God answers the cost of coming out with the embrace of coming home.
Echoing Isaiah 52:11, the call of the exodus from Babylon. Every generation of God's people faces its own coming out — and the Father waits on the far side of it (v. 18).
Inventory your yokes — the binding alliances that set your direction: romantic, financial, vocational. Verse 14 does not forbid contact with unbelievers; it forbids harnesses that force you to pull away from Christ. Where you find one, the path is verse 17, and the promise of verses 17-18 is worth every severed strap: received, fathered, owned.
Christ is the one in whom the day of salvation dawned (v. 2), and His indwelling makes believers the temple of the living God (v. 16). The separation He calls for, He suffered first — going outside the camp, bearing reproach, that He might receive us.
Quoting Isaiah 49:8, Paul declares the prophesied day has arrived. The gospel era is the open window of grace — and now is its only tense. Salvation is never offered for tomorrow.
Two beholds — urgency doubled. Procrastination is the most respectable form of unbelief; it agrees with everything and surrenders nothing.