2 Corinthians 6

1 As God's fellow workers, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

And we co-operating with Him do also exhort you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

2 For he says, “At a favorable time I listened to yoʋ, and in a day of salvation I helped yoʋ.” Behold, now is the favorable time; now is the day of salvation.

for He saith, "I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee." Behold now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation.

3 We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that our ministry may not be discredited.

We give no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

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

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

by purity, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the holy Spirit,

7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, with the armour of righteousness on the right and on the left; through honor and dishonor,

8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report; regarded as deceivers, and yet true;

through evil report and good report;

9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not put to death;

as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, but not put to death;

10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

as sorrowing, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.

11 O Corinthians, we have spoken freely to you; our hearts have been opened wide.

O Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you, our heart is enlarged:

12 You are not restricted by us, but by your own affections.

ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

13 Now in return—I am speaking as I would to my own children—open your hearts to us.

Now as a return of our love (I speak as to my children) be ye also enlarged towards us.

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? What fellowship does light have with darkness?

Be not unsuitably connected with infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?

15 What harmony does Christ have with Belial? What portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath a believer with an infidel?

16 And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them. 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 hath said, "I will dwell in them, and I will 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 ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing," and I will receive you:

18 I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

and I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.