Chapter 6

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

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  (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.)  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  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.  

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

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

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