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| 6:1 |
And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain--
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| 6:2 |
for He says, "At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is "the acceptable time," behold, now is "the day of salvation"--
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| 6:3 |
giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited,
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| 6:4 |
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
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| 6:5 |
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
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| 6:6 |
in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
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| 6:7 |
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,
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| 6:8 |
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;
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| 6:9 |
as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,
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| 6:10 |
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
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| 6:11 |
Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
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| 6:12 |
You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.
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| 6:13 |
Now in a like exchange--I speak as to children--open wide to us also.
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| 6:14 |
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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| 6:15 |
Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
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| 6:16 |
Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I will dwell 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 their midst and be separate," says the Lord. "And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.
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| 6:18 |
"And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me," Says the Lord Almighty.
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