2 Corinthians 6:14; What Fellowship Hath Righteousness with Unrighteousness

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?

The Apostle Paul exhorted members in the Corinthian church to be continually watchful of the lure of the ungodly to stifle them from their steadfastness in the Christian faith. The word “fellowship” means “sharing, partnership, as a participation in a common fellowship”. Righteousness or uprightness, the way of God, has nothing to do with lawlessness (unrighteousness).

The believer is enabled by the grace of God to obey God’s law as summarized in the Ten Commandments. The unbeliever, on the other hand, follows what is right in their own eyes, a state of lawlessness, doing what pleases him. The period of the Judges in Israel’s history after the death of Joshua and the passing of the elders that were with Joshua was a clear example of such lawlessness. It came about because Israel failed to obey God’s instruction to be separate from the idolatrous people of Canaan.

Judges 2:10-11 “And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:“

The Apostle Paul gave such a warning to the Corinthian church not to do evil by being entangled with the idolatry.

May God be merciful to protect His own. Amen.