2 Corinthians 6

¹As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

²For He says:

“In the time of favor I heard you,

and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!

³We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

⁴Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

⁵in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

⁶in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

⁷in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

⁸through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

⁹as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

¹⁰sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

¹¹We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

¹²It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

¹³As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

¹⁵What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

¹⁶What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will dwell with them

and walk among them,

and I will be their God,

and they will be My people.”

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them

and be separate, says the Lord.

Touch no unclean thing,

and I will receive you.”

¹⁸And:

“I will be a Father to you,

and you will be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

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