2 Corinthians 6
1 And as fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2 For he says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I came to your aid.” Look, now is the especially favorable time; look, now is the day of salvation.
3 We give no one any reason to stumble, so that the ministry may not be discredited.
4 Instead, in every way we commend ourselves as servants of God: with great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in hard work, in sleepless nights, in fastings,
6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and the left,
8 through honor and dishonor, through bad report and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet truthful,
9 as unknown, yet well known; as dying—and look, we are alive; as disciplined, yet not put to death,
10 as grieving, yet always joyful; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
11 Our mouths are open to you, Corinthians; our hearts have grown wide.
12 You are not confined by us, but you are confined within yourselves.
13 In return—I speak as to children—open your hearts wide too.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what share does a believer have with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement does God’s temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: “I will live among them and walk among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
17 Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch anything unclean, and I will welcome you.
18 And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
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