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| 6:1 |
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
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| 6:2 |
For he says, "At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!
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| 6:3 |
We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,
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| 6:4 |
but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
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| 6:5 |
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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| 6:6 |
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love,
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| 6:7 |
truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
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| 6:8 |
in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
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| 6:9 |
as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see-- we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed;
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| 6:10 |
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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| 6:11 |
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you.
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| 6:12 |
There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours.
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| 6:13 |
In return-- I speak as to children-- open wide your hearts also.
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| 6:14 |
Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness?
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| 6:15 |
What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?
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| 6:16 |
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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| 6:17 |
Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,
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| 6:18 |
and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
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