2 Corinthians 6

1 And working together, we also exhort you⁺ not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now [is] the favorable time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.

3 We are giving no cause of stumbling among [anyone], so that the ministry should not be blamed,

4 but in everything we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses;

5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

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

7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report; as imposters yet true;

9 as being unknown yet being well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as being disciplined yet not being put to death;

10 as being sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

11 Our mouth has been open to you⁺, Corinthians; our heart has been enlarged.

12 You⁺ are not restrained by us, but you⁺ are restrained in your⁺ [own] inner parts.

13 Now [as] the same recompense—I speak as to children—you⁺ be enlarged also.

14 Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership [have] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [has] light with darkness?

15 And what harmony [has] Christ with Beliar? Or what part to a believer [is] with an unbeliever?

16 And what agreement [has] the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them, and I will walk among [them], and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

17 “Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord, and touch no unclean [thing], and I will receive you⁺.”

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