2 Corinthians 6

1 As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

2 For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!

3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

5 in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

8 through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

9 unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

12 It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

1 ¶ We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.)

3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

4 But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;

9 As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

11 ¶ O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

1 But we exhort you as fellow-workers, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 For he saith, I have heard thee in the acceptable time, and have helped thee in the day of salvation. Behold, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.

3 But let us give no man any offence, lest our ministry be blasphemed;

4 But in all things let us prove ourselves servants of God: in great patience, in tribulations, in distresses, in anxieties,

5 in beatings, in prisons, in riots, in labor, in watches, in fasting,

6 in chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in uncontaminated love,

7 in the word of truth, in the power of GOD, by weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left;

8 By honour and dishonour, by evil rumour and good rumour; as the deceivers, and yet true;

9 as the unknown, and yet known; as the dying, and behold we live; as the chastened, and yet not slain;

10 as the sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as the poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing in possession, yet having all things].

11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you; our heart is confident.

12 For our sake ye shall not be afraid. But if ye be afraid, ye do it of a hearty mind.

13 I speak unto you as unto my children, that ye also bear with me, and be of good cheer.

14 Pull not the strange yoke with the unbelievers. For what enjoyment hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What fellowship hath light with darkness?

15 How does Christ agree with Belial? Or what part does the believer have with the unbeliever?

16 What likeness hath the temple of God unto idols? But ye are the temple of the living God, as God saith, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17 Come out therefore from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.

18 and be your father, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.