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6:1 And working together with Him, we also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain—
6:2 for He says, “At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—
6:3 giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited,
6:4 but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in distresses, in hardships,
6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
6:6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unhypocritical love,
6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,
6:8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;
6:9 as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and yet behold, we live; as punished and yet not put to death,
6:10 as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
6:11 Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
6:12 You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.
6:13 Now in a like exchange—I speak as to children—open wide to us also.
6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
6:15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
6:16 Or what agreement has a sanctuary of God with idols? For we are a sanctuary of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
6:17 Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean, And I will welcome you.
6:18 And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” says the Lord Almighty.