2 Cor. 6:11-16 – Choose Associates According To Your Faith

Translation & Sermon by Nate Wilson for Christ The Redeemer Church, Manhattan, KS, 25 Jan 2026
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Introduction

• Read the passage, 2 Corinthians 6:11-16
  Our mouth has opened toward y’all, Corinthians, our heart has been made expansive. Y’all are not being constrained by us, rather y’all are being constrained in your own innards. Yet the in-kind response (I am speaking as I would to children.) should be that you yourselves also should be expansive. Stop being hybridized with unbelievers. For what fellowship is there with righteousness and with lawlessness? Or what partnership is there with light toward darkness? And what common voice is there in the Anointed One toward the Ungodly one? Or what share is there in a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement is there in the temple of God with idols? For the temple of the living God is what y’all are… (NAW)

• The text before us now describes a broken relationship between the members of a church and their pastors. The nature of the problem is described in verses 11-13, and the cause of the problem is identified in verse 14, followed by five illustrations of why it causes problems. So, first the description of the problem from the perspective of Paul and Timothy:

v. 11 – Open heart; open mouth

• The Greek wording of v.11 literally reads “we have opened our mouth toward y’all.”

  • It’s a figure of speech used a few different ways in the Bible¹, but the way it applies to this passage has to do with the ministry of prophecy: Biblical prophets and apostles “opened their mouths” as an act of faith in God, and then God gave them a message to communicate.

  • The first time in the Bible this happens is Exodus 4:11-12 “And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man…? And now go and I will open thy mouth, and will in­struct thee in what thou shalt say.” (Brenton’s English translation of the Greek Septuagint)

  • Later on, David says in Psalm 51:15 “O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; and my mouth shall declare thy praise…” (Brenton) That’s how we got the book of Psalms; it started with David letting God open his mouth...

  • And God picked up on the same idea with the prophet Ezekiel: “But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, ‘Thus saith the Lord, He that hears, let him hear…’” (Ezekiel 3:27, Brenton, cf. Ezek. 29:21)

  • So it should come as no surprise that Matthew 5:2 describes Jesus doing the same thing at the beginning of His Sermon on the Mount: “And when He opened His mouth, He began teaching them, saying, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs...’”

  • Furthermore, we see it in the book of Acts, where the apostles Phillip (Acts 8:32&35), Peter (Acts 10:34), and Paul (Acts 18:14, cf. Eph. 6:19) each “opened his mouth” on different occasions to begin sharing the gospel with someone.

    • This is exactly what Paul has done with the Corinthians. The verb “opened” is in the perfect tense, indicating something he did in the past, when he visited the city of Corinth for the first time and shared the good news about Jesus with anyone who would listen²,

    • and it indicates that this was still his attitude years later when he wrote 2 Corinthians.³

• The second half of v.11 about the “heart” of the apostles “being enlarged/opened wide/ broad/expansive”

  • is expressing a parallel meaning to having an “opened” “mouth,”

  • and is the opposite of the “restraint” which the Corinthians were feeling towards Paul and Timothy in v.12.

  • The apostles call for a reciprocal response on the part of the Corinthians

    • using same word for “being enlarged/opened wide” in verse 13, “‘Be expansive’ toward us as ‘our heart has been expansive toward y’all’”!

    • Later, they exhort the Corinthians to that same reciprocal response of “openness” in chapter 7 verse 2, using the synonym “make room for us/receive us openly.”

  • It is worthy of note that when Paul and Timothy’s hearts were “enlarged/opened wide,” this was in obedience to God’s command using the very same word in the Greek translation of Isaiah 54:2-3 “Enlarge [open wide] the place of thy tent... spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy pins; spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: [WHY?] for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles…” (Brenton) That’s exactly what Paul did in his heart as he, a Jew­ish leader, embraced Jesus’ Great Commission to “go into all the world and make disciples of every nation,” opened his heart to care about Gentiles in Corinth, and, in Christ, saw those Gentile Corinthians become part of Christ’s inheritance in the church! (Eph. 1:22)

  • What is the condition of your heart on this?

    • Are you feeling as ready to “open your heart” to foreigners as Paul and Timothy were?

    • Are you enthusiastic about seeing Jews and other ethnic persons join our church?

    • Is your “mouth open” and waiting for God to give you the opportunity to talk with people about Jesus?

    • I can’t say that this comes naturally to me. But, whether (or not) you struggle with being willing to have that level of openness, don’t try to do it in your own strength; ask God to make the change in your heart that He wants to see in you. Let Him do it.

    • David points the way for us in Psalm 119:32 “I will run the course of Your com­mandments, For You shall enlarge my heart.” (NKJV) “Walk in love” (Eph. 5:2), as Jesus commanded (John 13:34, 15:12-17), and let God “enlarge your heart” and “open your mouth”!

vs. 12-13 – From Restraint to Openness in response to openness

• Now, the problem with which Paul and Timothy struggled is revealed in verse 12: The relational openness which the apostles had toward the Christians in Corinth was not being “returned in like measure” by the Corinthians. (As Paul said later on in 2 Corinthians 12:15 “...I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.” ~NKJV)

• The apostles were not doing anything to “restrict/straiten/withhold/edge-out” the Christians in Corinth⁴, but something inside the “bowels/affections” of those church members was causing them to be stand-offish and to hold back on their relationship with Paul and Timothy. (This was part of the reason why Paul had not come back to visit them yet, even though he wanted to.)

• The question is, “What was going on inside the Corinthians to make them cagey about contin­uing an open relationship with Paul and Timothy?” I see two clues in the verses that follow:

  • First is that the next thing the apostles say is for their readers to “cleanse/purify them­selves” from association with “unbelievers” and “idols.”

  • Second is that the apostles protest in ch. 7 v.2: “...We have wronged no one, we have cor­rupted no one, we have exploited no one.” (NKJV) Why would they feel the need to deny so specifically that they had “wronged” or “corrupted” or “exploited” anyone? I think that the Corinthian church members had been associating with unbelievers who had plant­ed those specific false accusations in their minds during the course of conversations, turn­ing them away from the openness that they should have had toward their spiritual leaders.

• Satan does not want you growing spiritually, and he does not want you making disciples, so, through thousands of years of experience, he has perfected the art of distracting God’s peo­ple with idolatry and darkness, and the art of poisoning the relationship between God’s peo­ple and their spiritual leaders through discontent and suspicion.

  • I’ve watched this happen many a time over decades of church pastoring – distractions as well as relational hostilities that stunted spiritual growth and fruitfulness.

  • And that’s what was happening in Corinth as well – the worship of other things besides Jesus was competing for the “affections” of church members, and growing suspicion of Paul and Timothy (fed by rumor-mongers) was strangling the rapport they had formerly enjoyed with the apostles who had brought them to Christ and had taught them how to be a church in the first place.

• And so, in v.13, Paul, as their spiritual father, takes a step back and lectures them like he would a child: “Now look, I have been open and generous toward you, so the proper response on your part is to be open and generous towards me. Being wide-open and expansive toward me and Timothy is the matching ‘response/return/recompense’ that you should render in exchange.”

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:11 “...you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children…” (NKJV)

  • I have left my home and my relatives and travelled far away to serve you; I have poured out my life developing a church community for you, teaching you, praying for you, developing spiritual leaders for you, and making myself available for advice. The least you can do in return is to welcome me when I come over for a visit and open your heart to what I have to say. Will you do that? Or will you continue to chose the influence of unbelievers instead?

  • 1 Corinthians 4:14 “I am writing these things, not to shame you, but rather to admonish, as you are my beloved children.” (NAW) So what do the apostles admonish?

v.14a – Stop being mismatched-partners/unequally yoked/bound togeth­er/hybridized with unbelievers.

• This prohibition in Greek is a compound verb based on the roots hetero (“different”) + zugos (“yoke”).

  • It is close to the noun found in Leviticus 19:19 “...Do not mate your cattle with hybrids (ἑτεροζύγῳ)...” (NAW), one of the ceremonial purity laws of the Old Testament, which also included Deut. 22:10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.” (NKJV) It was an outward practice intended to illustrate an important spiritual principle of holiness.⁵

  • The word “yoke” is also used in Greek literature to denote bonding a man and wife to­gether in marriage⁶, and a synonym is used in that respect in Deuteronomy 7:1-3 “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you... You shall not intermarry⁷ with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons...” (NAW)

    • God explained why in Exodus 34:12-16 “Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going... and make sacrifice to their gods... and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters... make your sons [become unfaithful] with their gods.” (NKJV, cf. Ps. 106:34-36 & Ezra 9:12)

• The Aorist verb tense of this prohibitive indicates that the Corinthians have been “unequally-yoked with unbelievers” and that they need to stop doing this because it has closed their hearts off toward the pastors that they need to be open with in order to be in a healthy place spiritually.

14b-16a Partnership Between Believers & Unbelievers is as Incompat­ible as 5 other Mutually-exclusive Pairings

• Five illustrations follow, demonstrating why these bonds with non-Christians are causing problems, all in terms of comparisons between two incompatable things:

1. “For what is the fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness/lawlessness?”

• The implied answer is: “None!” There is no fellowship between righteousness and law­lessness. Where people are doing what is right, they are doing the opposite of unright­eousness – they are not breaking the law. Conversely, where people are lawbreaking criminals and doing what is unrighteous, they can’t be righteous.

• Marvin Vincent noted in his Word Studies (1886), that “the distinctively Pauline sense of righteousness by faith underlies” what is being said here, so there is a relationship be­tween this contrast and the believer/unbeliever contrast.

• And, by the way, the word “unbeliever” means someone who has heard the call of the gospel to trust Jesus to save us from our sin, but has rejected it, not necessarily someone who has never heard the Gospel. (A. T. Robertson)

• The Greek word for “fellowship/partnership/common[ality]” is a compound of the verb “to have” and the preposition “with” – it indicates sharing the same resources.

• That’s why Paul had said earlier in 1 Corinthians 5:9 “I wrote to y'all in the letter not to mix together with immoral persons⁸…” (NAW)

• “Christ's offering of Himself for us was ‘that He might redeem us from all lawlessness’ (Titus 2:14). Accordingly, His final word to those who continue in unbelief is: ‘Depart from me, ye that work lawlessness’ (Mt. 7:23).” ~Phillip Hughes

2. The second impossible comparison is between “light” and “darkness.”

• The Greek preposition nuances it a bit to ask the question of what does light do to [προς] darkness?

• If I walk into a dark room with a flashlight/torch, what happens to the darkness every­where I point my light? My light is positively hostile toward darkness; darkness cannot exist in the same place that I shine my light!

• Here, in the comparison between light and darkness, the Greek word for “partnership/ communion/fellowship” is κοινωνία, which is based on the Greek word that means “commonality,” implying that the parties involved are doing things for each other.

  • But can darkness do anything to help my flashlight work better? No! Darkness works best in the total absence of light.

  • That’s why the Apostle John wrote at the beginning of his first letter:“[T]his is the mess­age which we have heard from Him and are announcing to you, that God is light, and darkness is not in Him at all. If we are saying that we are in fellowship with Him, yet we walk in the darkness, we are deceiving ourselves and do not practice the truth.” (1 John 1:5-6, NAW, cf. John 8:12, 3:19)

  • Jesus, however, “called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9, cf. Acts 26:16, 2 Cor. 4:6).

  • Trusting in Jesus and not trusting in Jesus are mutually irreconcilable. They cannot be hybridized into any partnership that works.

• To what extent does this apply? The commonalities of the words “yoke,” “fellowship,” “partnership,” “harmony,” “share,” and “agreement” help us understand that this is not talking about casual acquaintences or inconsequential purchases from merchants; these are deeper relationships:

  • where you make commitments to someone else,

  • you set yourself up to depend on them,

  • you allow them to use your things,

  • you allow them to speak for you,

  • and you share authority and accountability with them. (So, if God decides He has a problem with them and judges them, the consequences will spill over onto you.)

  • These are relationships which have an influence on you because you have given them partial control over your life.

• One obvious application was mentioned earlier, and that is marraige:

  • Marriage is such a close relationship that a man and wife can’t help exerting tremen­dous influence upon each other. When both love the Lord, there is tremendous bene­fit to be shared in that influence,

  • but it would be an unequally-yoked partnership for someone who believes in Jesus to marry someone who does not believe in Jesus. They cannot marry “in the Lord,” as the Bible commands in 1 Corinthians 7:39⁹. One person is under the control of the Holy Spirit and the other person is under the control of the Devil. It is not possible to achieve unity in spirit or mind, and, as a result, it is inevitable that the believer will be hindered in their relationship with God and will compromise with sin, so God told His people not to marry anyone who is not “in the Lord.”

• What about other relationships, like business and social relationships?

  • Well, since our business and social relationships are formed with different levels of commitment, and different levels of dependence, communication, and sharing, it takes wisdom to discern where to draw the line and refuse to associate.

  • As Paul noted already in 1 Corinthians 5:10, it is “not” possible to avoid “mixing” at some level “with immoral persons” – we would have to “leave this world” altogether to do that! Furthermore, Jesus came “into the world” and He left us to be “in the world” for now (John 17:11), for us to be “salt” and “light” (Matt. 5:13-14), so there is nothing wrong with being in the world to be a godly influence on it.

  • Furthermore, there is nothing unrighteous about being dependent. There is a legalist­ic philosophy going around that says that self-employment is more righteous than working for an employer. But Paul told slaves in 1 Corinthians 7:20 that if they can’t obtain independence, then, “Each, in the calling in which he was called – in this, let him remain.” (NAW) In other words, Paul commanded them to keep working as slaves and to consider it a “calling” from God! So being dependent on a boss or an employer does not make you a second-rate Christian; that is not the “unequal yok­ing” that the apostles are saying must be stopped in 2 Corinthians here.

  • But business and social relationships which “constrain” our “affections” away from being “wide open” to the spiritual leaders who have helped us trust Jesus – who keep watch over our souls in the church, those social and business relationships should be cut off, if at all possible.

  • Here’s an example from my experience: When I created my NateWilsonFamily website address, everybody said that the way to set up a domain name was through GoDaddy. However, that company was well-known for advertisements that promoted sexual immorality, so, knowing that I wanted this service for the rest of my life, I looked for alternatives, and I decided to contract with another company called Network Solutions, which was much more expensive, but didn’t have sleazy ads.

  • There may also be individuals with whom you should not partner in business because they would be a bad influence or would associate you too closely with ungodliness.

• Let me add that there should also be special precautions concerning broadcasted media because of the nature of one-way communication and the influence it can have upon you. When, for instance, you are watching a movie or listening to an audio recording, you are not able to interact with the producer and shine light and be an influence like you would if you were in a face-to-face conversation. The influence is all one-way from them to you, so you need to be especially careful to choose media that will not turn your affec­tions away from loving the Lord with all your heart and will not turn your heart away from being wide-open to the face-to-face influence and accountability of the spiritual leaders under whom God has placed you in the church.

• v. 15 continues to hammer on the need to break fellowship with unbelievers by another set of absurd comparisons:

3. v.15 What harmony/concord/accord is there between Christ and Belial/Satan?

• “Beliar” appears to refer to the Hebrew word Belial (בְלִיַּעַל) found throughout the Old Testament (especially in 1 & 2 Samuel) translated “worthlesness/wickedness/ungodli­ness” and usually paired with the phrase “son of” or “man of.”

• The fact that this name stands alone without “son of/man of” here suggests that this could be referring to the personal source behind all the “sons of ungodliness,” namely Satan himself, providing a perfect foil to Christ¹⁰.

• The Greek word describing the relationship between the two is συμφώνησις from which we get the word “symphony.” It literally translates as “voices together” - saying things that go together. But we know that cannot be true of Jesus and Satan!

  • They don’t say the same thing: Jesus spoke the truth; Satan lies.

  • Jesus’ words call us to trust in God and be in unity with His people, but Satan’s words always lead to rebellion against God and division in the church.

• 1 John 3:7-8 “Dear children, no one must lead you astray; the one who is doing the right is righteous, just as He [Christ] is righteous; the one who is committing the sin is out of the devil, because, from the beginning, the devil sins. Into this [situation] the son of God was revealed in order that He might destroy the works of the devil.” (NAW)

• Paul was clear in 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 that Christians cannot maintain fellowship with the Lord Jesus and with demons: “...I'm not willing for y'all to become partners [κοινωνοὺς] of the demons. Y'all are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. Y'all are not able to partake [μετέχειν] of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (NAW)¹¹

• 1 Cor. 16:22 “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!” (NKJV)

• Stop allowing yourselves to be influenced by people to are being influenced by Satan and you’ll be able to open your heart towards the people who love the Lord Jesus.

4. What common/share/part/portion/μερὶς is there between believer and unbeliever?

• Once again the answer, spiritually speaking, is “None.”

• Of course, we “share” the air we breathe and the sunshine and rain God provides, but we cannot work together to achieve the same life-goals and religious purposes because be­lieving/trusting in Jesus to save us from our sin is diametrically opposed to not believing in Jesus. That fundamental difference in belief creates entirely different ways of living and entirely different goals in life that can’t be shared.

• Their “reward” is on earth (Mat. 6:2); your “reward” is in heaven (Mat. 5:12) – your resources are unshareable because they exist in different places!

• The false apostles who came into Corinth after Paul did not believe that Jesus is the Anointed/Messiah/Christ. Their goals in life included presteige, strength, and self-pro­motion. Paul, on the other hand, as we see in 2 Corinthians, valued humility, weakness, and Jesus.

• I recently ran into a situation with a group that doesn’t believe Christian trinitarian theo­logy. They told a baptized member of a local Bible-believing church that she wasn’t a Christian because she hadn’t been baptized in the name of Jesus-only. That church mem­ber was encouraged to turn away from her pastor who had shared the Gospel with her. Then those same false teachers sent me an email asking for me to help them reach more people in our town. Should I be sharing my resources to help a cult group turn more Christians astray? No way!

• 2 Thessalonians 3:6 “But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.” (NKJV, cf. 1 Tim. 6:3-5)

• There is one last incompatible relationship in...

5. v.16 What agreement is there in the temple of God with idols?

• The Greek word translated “agreement” here in v.16 is a compound of the preposition “together with” + the verb “to set down.”

• It reminds me of 1 Samuel chapter 5, when the Philistines beat the Israelites in a battle and took the Ark of the Covenant of God back with them as a war-trophy to display in the temple of their fish-God Dagon. The Living God and the idol of Dagon didn’t get along so well, placed together in the same temple, did they? The idol kept falling down and breaking!

• Later on, Israelites tried to do the opposite thing and place idols in the temple of the True and Living God in Jerusalem. God sent them into exile for doing that!¹²

• God is a jealous God; that’s why the first commandment is: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me!” (Exodus 20:3)

• The apostles go on to re-assert what they had said in 1 Corinthians 3 and 6: “Haven't y'all known that y'all are¹³ the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God resides in y'all?” (1 Cor. 3:16, NAW) “Or haven’t y'all known that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit...?” (1 Cor. 6:19, NAW)

• This is not just about “setting” two rival gods “next to” each other. Think about the pur­pose of a temple. What is a temple for? It is a place to worship, right? If your body is built to be a place to worship God, yet you bring something else into that temple and worship it and help other people worship that idol, then the building is being used for a purpose it was never supposed to be used for; it is violating the very purpose for which it exists!

  • So Paul had written in 1 Corinthians 10 “...stop being idolaters…” (v.7) and “...flee from idol-worship…” (v.14). (NAW)

  • And in 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 “...you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God...” (NKJV)

Conclusion

• There is another lesson that we can learn from the apostles in this passage, and that is to keep our affections open toward those who have been rude towards us.

  • Jesus’ “Parable of the Prodigal Son” portrays a father who runs to welcome his son who had dishonored and abandoned him, showing us God’s attitude toward His rebellious children – and therefore the attitude we should have towards those who should have been respectful towards us but weren’t.

  • We must “enlarge our hearts” towards them and eagerly anticipate their redemption instead of hating them and cutting them out of our lives.

• The flip-side of that lesson is to consider the people in your life that God wanted you to honor but whom you have judged harshly and dishonored with your words or actions, and how you may repent of that.

  • Our passage in 2 Corinthians is specifically referring to the breakdown of respect be­tween people in a church and their pastors. In the 18^th century, Matthew Henry com­mented: “It is desirable that there should be a mutual good affection between ministers and their people, and this would greatly tend to their mutual comfort and advantage.”

  • Maybe it will help for me to take the initiative to confess a sin that I have been convicted of recently. Like Paul states in this passage in 2 Corinthians 6, it is often idolatry that leads us into dishonoring our spiritual leaders. For me, the desire to get people to like me is idol­atrous. I want the authorities in my life to like me, and I want to be liked by the people that I’m supposed to lead. My immediate spiritual authority that God has placed over me is the other elders of our church, so sometimes when I have idolized getting them to like me, I have agreed too-readily with them over things that I actually had a problem with. Then, sometimes I have discovered in conversation that some of the members of the congrega­tion were on my side of the disagreement with the other elders, so, again pursuing my idol of wanting to be liked, I have told those congregation members that I disagreed with the elders because I knew that’s what they wanted to hear, even though it undermined their confidence in the other elders. Over time, that pattern of sin has really damaged our church by destroying trust between the members and the God-ordained pastors of our church, so I want to confess that sin and ask forgiveness for it and turn away from it.

  • That’s not to say we can’t have our disagreements and debates, but we need to forsake the unfaithful and idolatrous influences which close our hearts up against the spiritual leaders whom God has given us in the church.

Appendix: More Scripture warnings and exhortations to put a stop to ungodly influences in our lives:

• Who do you get advice from? Psalm 1:1 “Blessings of the man who didn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, didn't stand in the path of sinners, and didn't sit in the bench of the scornful...” (NAW)

• Who do you associate with? Psalm 26:4-5 “I have not sat with vain men, and don't have dealings with men who have something to hide. I have hated the congregation of evil men, and with wicked men I will not sit.” (NAW)

• This is especially true of persons who call themselves Christian brothers and sisters and who want to hang out with you and be an influence on you, but whose lifestyle is not consistent with Christian morals: 1 Cor. 5:11 “[N]ow I write to y'all not to mix together¹⁴ with anyone if, while called a brother, he is being immoral or greedy or an idol-worshipper or an abusive speaker or drunkard or grasper – not even to eat together with such… 33 Do not be led astray, Bad company corrupts good manners.” (NAW)

• This is also especially true of influencers who deviate from (or add to) the Gospel proclaimed by the apostles in the New Testament: 2 John 1:10 “When someone comes to y'all and does not carry this teaching, don't y'all receive him into a house and don't y'all speak to impart cheer to him...” (NAW)

• Ephesians 5:7 “Therefore do not be partakers [συμμέτοχοι] with them, 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light… 11 And have no fellowship [συγκοινωνεῖτε] with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.” (NKJV)

• James 4:4 “Adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that the love of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore might wish to be a lover of the world appoints himself an enemy of God.” (NAW)

• Exodus 23:2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil...” (NKJV)

• Proverbs 4:14 “Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil.” (NKJV)

• 1 Thess. 5:5 “You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.” (NKJV)

• Romans 13:12 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.” (NKJV)

• Philippians 2:15 “...that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world...” (NKJV)

2 Corinthians 6:11-16a – Comparison of Textual Traditions & Versions^A