2 Corinthians 6:4–18

⁴but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities, ⁵beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;^{* 6}in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, ⁷truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;^{* 8}in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true, ⁹as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,^{* 10}as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

¹¹We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. ¹²There is no restriction in our affections but only in yours. ¹³In return—I speak as to children—open wide your hearts also.^*

The Temple of the Living God

¹⁴Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?^{* 15}What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we^z are the temple of the living God, as God said,

“I will live in them^a and walk among them,

and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.^*

¹⁷Therefore come out from them,

and be separate from them, says the Lord,

and touch nothing unclean;

then I will welcome you,^*

¹⁸and I will be your father,

and you shall be my sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”^*