2 Corinthians 5:20–6:10

20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.* 21 For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.*

6 As we work together with him,y we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.* 2 For he says,

“At an acceptable time I have listened to you,

and on a day of salvation I have helped you.”

Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!* 3 We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,* 4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;* 6 in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, 7 truthful 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, 9 as 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.