2 Cor 6: 1 We beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of GOD in VAIN.

2 Cor 6: 1 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 Cor 6: 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

A WISE SERVANT and FAITHFUL SERVANT would do WELL to follow the WISDOM of GOD through these scriptures:

BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED: dating, fellowshipping (endearing ourselves to), even considering dating with the idea of MARRIAGE to a NON CHRISTIAN would be a foolish act for a member of the BODY of CHRIST.

Light vs darkness

Righteousness vs unrighteousness

The TWO  KINGDOMS can not mix, for they will divide the other.

To YOKE/to put ourselves into bondage with an UNBELIEVER is binding ourselves to a life time of SORROW and PAIN. One can SIMPLY NOT come to ONENESS in a relationship where TWO people are SERVING two different KINGDOMS.

We are the TEMPLE of the LIVING GOD, we are CALLED to have no fellowship (endearments/agreements/bondage) with IDOLS or INFIDELS. 

2 Cor 6: 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

Belial means "Worthlessness or wickedness".

Concord simply means AGREEMENT/ covenant.

Infidel meaning LOST/ Faithless /unbeliever

1) unfaithful, faithless, (not to be trusted, perfidious)

2) incredible

a) of things

3) unbelieving, incredulous

a) without trust (in God)

2 Cor 6: 16 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.

Paul is ADMONISHING the believer to not YOKE/bond themselves with the UNBELIEVERS as WELL as IDOLS that pollute/abominate the temple of GOD, Body, mind and soul.

2 Cor 6: 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

To be SEPARATE is the same as HOLY/SET APART.

UNCLEAN

1) not cleansed, unclean

a) in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law

b) in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life

2 Cor 6: 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2 Cor 7: 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

CLEANSING ourselves from FILTHINESS of the SPIRIT and FLESH.

The PROMISES of GOD are ETERNAL, a life of ABUNDANT LIVING in HIM, BLESSED by HIM, through the following of HIS precepts and PRINCIPALS.

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2 Cor 7: 3  I speak not [this] to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with [you].

2 Cor 7: 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

2 Cor 7: 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2 Cor 7: 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 

These things were not meant to CONDEMN the BELIEVER, but to bring about GODLY SORROW To REPENTANCE. RENEWAL, REBIRTH, Conforming us to the MIND and IMAGE OF CHRIST.

In the FLESH we can only come to GODLY SORROW, from our SORROW of SIN the HOLY SPIRIT and the WORD of GOD, are able to bring us to the INDIGNATION/angry at your SIN, FEAR (REVERANCE) and a VEHEMENT DESIRE to be CLEANSED.

To feel Indignation for sin means also that we are NO LONGER able to JUSTIFY it in our lives.

So in ALL things we may be APPROVED to be clean in these matters.

That the HOLY SPIRIT has the POWER to bring us to REPENTANCE and RESTORATION to the IMAGE OF CHRIST.

LORD JESUS, We ask that YOU bring about the GODLY SORROW needed through your WORD. Give us the DESIRE be SEPARATE and HOLY before you,  REVEAL YOURSELF as HOLY, that We may have  REVERENCE in our HEART for YOUR PRECEPTS, PRINCIPALS, the INDIGNATION for SIN, that we can CAST OFF, TRAMPLE DOWN, these STRONG HOLDS and STUMBLINGBLOCKS in our LIVES, Things that EXALT themselves above the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD,  that YOU be HONORED and GLORIFYED forever and ever, in JESUS NAME AMEN.

AMEN.

donna