2 Corinthians 6
1 As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
As fellow-workers, then, with him, we also exhort you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain;
2 For 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!
(for he saith: “In an accepted time I heard thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee;” Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation; )
3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
giving no occasion for stumbling in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed;
4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
but as God's ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;
through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;
9 as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
12 It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
Ye have not a narrow place in my heart, but ye have a narrow place for me in yours.
13 As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.
So then in return, I speak to you as children, let your hearts be enlarged.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?
16 What 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.”
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall 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.”
“Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean;” “and I will receive you,
18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
and will be to you a father, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
