2Cor 6
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And working together [with him] we entreat also that you receive not the grace of
God in vain
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(for he says, At an acceptable time I hearkened to you, And in a day of salvation
did I succor you: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of
salvation):
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giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
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but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
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in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in
love unfeigned,
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in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right
hand and on the left,
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by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;
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as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and
not killed;
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing,
and [yet] possessing all things.
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Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
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You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.
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Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as to [my] children), be you also enlarged.
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Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and
iniquity? or what communion has light with darkness?
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And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
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And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living
God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
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Wherefore Come you out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, And
touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
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And will be to you a Father, And you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the
Lord Almighty.