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- 1 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
- 2 For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
- 3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
- 4 but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
- 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
- 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
- 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
- 8 by glory and dishonor, 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 punished and not killed,
- 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
- 11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
- 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
- 13 Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
- 14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- 15 What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
- 16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
- 17 Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
- 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”