The Second to the Corinthians, 6

¹ Working together with him, we also entreat YOU not to accept the undeserved kindness of God and miss its purpose.

² For he says: “In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you.” Look! Now is the especially acceptable time. Look! Now is the day of salvation.

³ In no way are we giving any cause for stumbling, that our ministry might not be found fault with;

⁴ but in every way we recommend ourselves as God’s ministers,^*1 by the endurance of much, by tribulations, by cases of need, by difficulties,

⁵ by beatings, by prisons, by disorders, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times without food,

⁶ by purity, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by holy spirit, by love free from hypocrisy,

⁷ by truthful speech, by God’s power; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,^*1

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

⁹ as being unknown and yet being recognized, as dying and yet, look! we live, as disciplined and yet not delivered to death,

¹⁰ as sorrowing but ever rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹¹ Our mouth has been opened to YOU, Corinthians, our heart has widened out.

¹² YOU are not cramped for room within us, but YOU are cramped for room in YOUR own tender affections.

¹³ So, as a recompense in return—I speak as to children—YOU, too, widen out.

¹⁴ Do not become unevenly yoked^*1 with unbelievers. For what fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness?

¹⁵ Further, what harmony is there between Christ and Beʹli·al?^*1 Or what portion does a faithful^*2 person have with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ And what agreement does God’s temple^*1 have with idols? For we are a temple of a living God; just as God said: “I shall reside among them and walk among [them], and I shall be their God, and they will be my people.”

¹⁷ “‘Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves,’ says Jehovah,^*1 ‘and quit touching the unclean thing’”; “‘and I will take YOU in.’”

¹⁸ “‘And I shall be a father to YOU, and YOU will be sons and daughters to me,’ says Jehovah^*1 the Almighty.”