WE then, as workers together with him, beseech
you also that ye receive not the grace of God
in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time
accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured
thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now
is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry
be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the
ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in
labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering,
by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God,
by the armour of righteousness on the right hand
and on the left.
8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and
good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying,
and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor,
yet making many rich; as having noting, and yet
possessing all things.
11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you,
our heart is enlarged.
12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened
in your own bowels.
13 Now for a recompense in the same (I speak
as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God;
as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and
be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive you;
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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