We then,
as workers together with him, beseech you also
that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
02 (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.)
03 Giving no offence in any thing, that the
ministry be not blamed:
04 But in all things approving ourselves as the
ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
05 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in
labours, in watchings, in fastings;
06 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering,
by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned,
07 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by
the armour of righteousness on the right hand and
on the left,
08 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and
good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
09 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.
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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.
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