2 Corinthians 6
1 But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine.
2 For he says: “In a favorable time, I heeded you; and on the day of salvation, I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
For he sayth, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde nowe the accepted time, beholde nowe the day of saluation.
3 May we never give offense to anyone, so that our ministry may not be disparaged.
We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.
4 But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;
But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 despite wounds, imprisonment, and rebellion; with hard work, vigilance, and fasting;
In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours,
6 by chastity, knowledge, and longsuffering; in pleasantness, in the Holy Spirit, and in unfeigned charity;
By watchings, by fastings, by puritie, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained,
7 with the Word of truth, with the power of God, and with the armor of justice to the right and to the left;
By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand, and on the left,
8 through honor and dishonor, despite good reports and bad, whether seen as deceivers or truth-tellers, whether ignored or acknowledged;
By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:
9 as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued;
As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:
10 as if sorrowful and yet always rejoicing; as if needy and yet enriching many; as if having nothing and possessing everything.
As sorowing, and yet alway reioycing: as poore, and yet make many riche: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians; our heart is enlarged.
O Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you: our heart is made large.
12 You are not narrowed by us, but it is by your own inner selves that you are narrowed.
Ye are not kept strait in vs, but ye are kept strait in your owne bowels.
13 But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged.
Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged.
14 Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?
Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse?
15 And how can Christ join together with Belial? Or what part do the faithful have with the unfaithful?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the beleeuer with the infidell?
16 And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: “I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.
17 Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.
Wherefore come out from among them, and separate your selues, saith the Lord, and touch none vncleane thing, and I wil receiue you.
18 Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
And I will be a Father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord almightie.
