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2 Corinthians
6:1As co-workers we plead with you not to waste the favor you received from God.6:2He says, “At the right time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the right time; now is the day of salvation!
6:3We put no obstacles in front of anyone, so that that our service would not be blamed.6:4Instead, in everything we commend ourselves as servants of God:
- in endurance,
- in many pressures,
- in stress,
- in harrowing circumstances,
- 6:5in beatings,
- in jails,
- in riots,
- in hard work,
- in sleeplessness,
- in fasting,
- 6:6in purity,
- in knowledge,
- in great patience,
- in kindness,
- in the Holy Spirit,
- in a love that is not hypercritical,
- 6:7in the word of truth,
- in the power of God,
- through the weapons of justice in both hands,
- 6:8through honor and shame,
- through false rumors and good reports,
- through lies and truth,
- 6:9as being misunderstood and well known,
- as dying and yet somehow living,
- as being disciplined and avoiding the death penalty,
- 6:10as grieving and yet always happy,
- as poor yet enriching many,
- as having nothing yet having everything.
6:11Corinthians, we have made ourselves vulnerable to you; we have opened our hearts wide.6:12If things are strained between us, it is only on your part.6:13I should only have to say this to children, but now you too must open up!
6:14Do not allow yourselves to be harnessed together with unbelievers, for what do justice and lawlessness have in common? What partnership can there be between light and darkness?6:15Especially, to what agreement can the Anointed and Belial come? What?! What connection is there between a believer and an unbeliever?6:16And what could join the temple of God with that of idols? For we are the living temple of God, just as he said: “I will take up residence with them and walk among them; I will be their God and they will be my people.”6:17Therefore, “ ‘Come out from among them and be separate,’ says the Master, ‘and touch nothing unclean, and I will accept you.6:18I will be a father to you and you will be sons and daughters to me,’ says the Almighty Master.”