The Second to the Corinthians 6:1-18
6 Working together with him,+ we also urge 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, so that no fault may be found with our ministry;+
4 but in every way we recommend ourselves as God’s ministers,+ by the endurance of much, by tribulations, by times of need, by difficulties,+
5 by beatings, by imprisonments,+ by riots, by hard work, by sleepless nights, by times without food;+
6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience,+ by kindness,+ by holy spirit, by love free from hypocrisy,+
7 by truthful speech, by God’s power;+ through the weapons of righteousness+ in the right hand* and in the left,*
8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report. We are regarded as deceivers and yet we are truthful,
9 as unknown and yet we are recognized, as dying* and yet look! we live,+ as punished* and yet not handed over to death,+
10 as sorrowing but ever rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.+
11 We have opened our mouth to speak* to you, Corinthians, and we have opened wide our heart.
12 We are not restricted in* our affections for you,+ but you are restricted in your own tender affections for us.
13 So in response—I speak as to my children—you too open your hearts wide.*+
14 Do not become unevenly yoked* 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?*+ Or what does a believer* share in common* with an unbeliever?+
16 And what agreement does God’s temple have with idols?+ For we are a temple of a living God;+ just as God said: “I will reside among them+ and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”+
17 “‘Therefore, get out from among them, and separate yourselves,’ says Jehovah,* ‘and quit touching the unclean thing’”;+ “‘and I will take you in.’”+
18 “‘And I will become a father to you,+ and you will become sons and daughters to me,’+ says Jehovah,* the Almighty.”
Footnotes
^ Perhaps for defense.
^ Perhaps for offense.
^ Or “considered worthy of death.”
^ Or “disciplined.”
^ Or “have spoken openly.”
^ Or “cramped for room in.”
^ Or “you too widen out.”
^ Or “joined.”
^ Or “what share does a believer have.”
^ Or “a faithful person.”
^ From a Hebrew word meaning “Good for Nothing.” A reference to Satan.
