| 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 succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) |
| 3 | Giving no offence 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 labours, in watchings, in fastings; |
| 6 | By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, |
| 7 | By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, |
| 8 | By honour and dishonour, 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 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. |
