1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith,I have heard thee in a time accepted,and in the day of salvation have I succored thee:Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 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.
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 recompense 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 Be´li-al? 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.