2nd Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 15 Holy Bible
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
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And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?
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and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?
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And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
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What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
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and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Concord; literally, harmony or accord. The word does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament or in the LXX. The adjective sumphonos occurs in 1 Corinthians 7:5. Christ with Belial (see 1 Corinthians 10:21), Belial. Here used in the form Beliar, as a proper name, because no Greek word ends in the letter τ. In the Old Testament it does not stand for a person, but means "wickedness" or "worthlessness." Thus in Proverbs 6:12 "a naughty person" is adam belial. "A son of Belial" means "a child of wickedness" by a common Hebraism (Deuteronomy 13:13; Judges 19:22). And hence, since Belial only became a proper name in later days - "To him no temples rose,No altars smoked." Perhaps, as has been conjectured, this clause, which contains two such unusual words, may be a quotation. It is, however, no ground of objection that Belial does not occur elsewhere in St. Paul, for until the pastoral Epistles he only uses diabolos twice (Ephesians 4:27; Ephesians 6:11). What part, etc.? This is not, like the other clauses, an illustration, but the statement of the fact itself which "has come in amidst the lively, sweeping flow of the discourse." With an infidel; i.e. with an unconverted Gentile.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) What concord hath Christ with Belial?--The passage is remarkable as being the only occurrence of the name in the New Testament, all the more so because it does not appear in the Greek version of the Old. The Hebrew word signifies "vileness, worthlessness;" and the "sons of Belial" (as in Deuteronomy 13:13; 1Samuel 2:12; 1Samuel 25:17) were therefore the worthless and the vile. The English version, following the Vulgate, translates the phrase as though Belial were a proper name, and this has led to the current belief, as shown in Milton's poems, that it was the name of a demon or fallen angel, the representative of impurity--"Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd,Fell not from heaven, or more gross to loveVice for itself."--Paradise Lost, i. 490."Belial, the dissolutest spirit that fell,The sensualest, and, after Asmodai, . . .
