8 We were treated with honor and dishonor and with verbal abuse and good evaluation. We were seen as both fake and real,
9 as unknown and well known, as dying—and look, we are alive! We were seen as punished but not killed,
10 as going through pain but always happy, as poor but making many rich, and as having nothing but owning everything.
11 Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, and our hearts are wide open.
12 There are no limits to the affection that we feel for you. You are the ones who placed boundaries on your affection for us.
13 But as a fair trade—I’m talking to you like you are children—open your hearts wide too.
14 Don’t be tied up as equal partners with people who don’t believe. What does righteousness share with that which is outside the Law? What relationship does light have with darkness?