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| [1]And as aiders we entreat of you, that the grace of God which ye have received, may not be ineffectual in you. |
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| [2]For he hath said, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in the day of life I have aided thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time ! and behold, now is the day of life ! |
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| [3]Give ye no occasion of offence to any one in any thing, that there may be no reproach on our ministry. |
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| [4]But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses, |
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| [5]in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting; |
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| [6]by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by benignity, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned, |
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| [7]by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; |
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| [8]amid honor and dishonor, amid praise and contumely; as deceivers, and yet true; |
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| [9]as not known, and yet we are well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastised, yet not killed; |
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| [10]as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as indigent, yet enriching many; as possessing nothing, yet having all things. |
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| [11]O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened towards you, and our heart expanded. |
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| [12]Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. |
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| [13]I speak as to [my] children, Pay me the debt which ye owe, and expand your love towards me. |
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| [14]And be ye not yoke-fellows with them that believe not: for what fellowship hath righteousness with iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? |
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| [15]or what concord hath the Messiah with Satan? or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever? |
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| [16]or what agreement hath the temple of God with that of demons? For ye are the temple of the living God; as it is said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
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| [17]Wherefore, come ye out from among them, and be ye separate from them, saith the Lord; and come not near the unclean thing, and I will receive you; |
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| [18]and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be sons and daughters to me, saith the Lord Almighty. |
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