2 Corinthians 6

¹ Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

² For he says: "In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

³ We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry;

⁴ on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

⁵ beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;

⁶ by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love,

⁷ in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left;

⁸ through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;

⁹ as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;

¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹¹ We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.

¹² You are not constrained by us; you are constrained by your own affections.

¹³ As recompense in kind (I speak as to my children), be open yourselves.

¹⁴ Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

¹⁵ What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: "I will live with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ Therefore, come forth from them and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you

¹⁸ and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."