1 AND, as workers together with him, we also beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain;
2 (for he says: In an accepted time I heard thee, And in the day of salvation I helped thee; behold, now is the well accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation;)
3 giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
4 but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;
9 as unknown, and well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
11 O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now as a recompense in the same kind (I speak as to my children), be ye also enlarged.
14 Be not yoked unequally with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God; as God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
17 Wherefore, come out from among them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean; and I will receive you,
18 and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
