2 Corinthians 6
1 And also working together we call on [you] that you do not receive the grace of God in vain—
As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 for He says, “In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you, behold, now [is] a well-accepted time; behold, now, a day of salvation.”
For he said. In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!
3 In nothing giving any cause of offense, that the ministry may not be blamed,
I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited;
4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God’s servants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God’s minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;
6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unhypocritical love,
with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armor of righteousness, on the right and on the left,
by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,
8 through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;
amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;
9 as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;
as unknown and yet well known; as at death’s door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed;
10 as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
11 Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged!
O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.
12 You are not restricted in us, and you are restricted in your [own] yearnings,
There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own.
13 and [as] a repayment of the same kind (as to children I say [it]), be enlarged—also you!
I pray you, therefore, in fair exchange (I speak as to my children), let your hearts also be wide open to me.
14 Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what fellowship to light with darkness? And what concord to Christ with Belial? Or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?
What concord has Christ with Belial? What portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement to the temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, according as God said, “I will dwell in them, and will walk among [them], and I will be their God, and they will be My people,
And what compact has God’s temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said. I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
17 for this reason, come forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, says the LORD, and do not touch an unclean thing, and I will receive you,
Therefore, Come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean;
18 and I will be for a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the LORD Almighty.”
then I will receive you and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
