2 Corinthians 6- 1
- As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.
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- For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." [1] I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
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- We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
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- Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
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- in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
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- in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
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- in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
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- through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
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- known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
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- sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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- We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.
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- We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.
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- As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your hearts also.
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- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
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- What harmony is there between Christ and Belial [2] ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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- What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people." [3]
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- "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you." [4]
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- "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." [5]
- [2] Isaiah 49:8
- [15] Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
- [16] Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27
- [17] Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41
- [18] 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8