2 Corinthians
6
- As God's fellow workers we urge you not
to receive God's grace in vain.
- For he says, "In the time of my favor
I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now
is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
- We put no stumbling block in anyone's path,
so that our ministry will not be discredited.
- Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves
in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
- in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in
hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
- in purity, understanding, patience and kindness;
in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
- in truthful speech and in the power of God;
with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
- through glory and dishonor, bad report and
good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
- known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and
yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
- sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet
making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians,
and opened wide our hearts to you.
- We are not withholding our affection from
you, but you are withholding yours from us.
- As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open
wide your hearts also.
- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship
can light have with darkness ?
- What harmony is there between Christ and
Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever
?
- What agreement is there between the temple
of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
"I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God,
and they will be my people."
- "Therefore come out from them and be
separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."
- "I will be a Father to you, and you
will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
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