2 Corinthians 6

¹And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God— ²for He saith, ‘In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now is a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,’— ³in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed, ⁴but in everything recommending ourselves as God’s ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, ⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, ⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left, ⁸through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true; ⁹as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death; ¹⁰as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹¹Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged! ¹²ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your own bowels, ¹³and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged—also ye! ¹⁴Become not yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? ¹⁵and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—‘I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, ¹⁷wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I—I will receive you, ¹⁸and I will be to you for a Father, and ye—ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.’

Chapter 7