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2 Corinthians 6

¹As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

²For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” [10] I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

³We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.

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

⁵in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;

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

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

⁸through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;

⁹known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and 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, and opened wide our hearts to you.

¹²We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.

¹³As a fair exchange — I speak as to my children — open wide your hearts also.

¹⁴Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

¹⁵What harmony is there between Christ and Belial [11]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

¹⁶What 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.” [12]

¹⁷Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” [13]

¹⁸And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”