Belial

The umbrella collects lawlessness — the worthless or base character whose acts pull others away from Yahweh. The two passages here approach it from opposite ends: a Deuteronomic case-law about agitators who lead a city into idolatry, and a Pauline rhetorical question that pits Christ against Belial as personified opposites.

Base Men Who Draw a City to Other Gods

The first passage names the type without using a proper name. Moses sets out the case where rumor reaches the people that men have led a town into apostasy: "Certain base fellows have gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you⁺ haven't known;" (De 13:13). The character is defined by what he does — he goes out from among the people and draws others to serve gods they have not known. The "base fellows" are the lawless agitators the umbrella collects: men whose worthlessness shows itself in pulling a community into idolatry.

Christ and Belial as Opposites

The second passage personifies the type. Paul piles up rhetorical contrasts to argue that Christians cannot be yoked with unbelievers: "And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?" (2Co 6:15). Belial is set as Christ's opposite — the Greek form, as the footnote records, is "Beliar." The pair Christ–Belial parallels believer–unbeliever in the next clause, so the name functions as a shorthand for the whole category of lawlessness that has no concord with Christ.