WE
then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that
ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day
of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is
the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving
no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in
all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much
patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In
stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
watchings, in fastings;
6 By
pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by
love unfeigned,
7 By the
word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of
righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honour and dishonour, 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
chastened, and not killed;
10 As
sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making
many rich; as having nothing, and yet
possessing all things.
11 O ye
Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12 Ye are
not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now
for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my
children,) be ye also enlarged.
14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And
what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part
hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 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 walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
