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[1]We then, as co-workers 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 succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
[3]Giving no offense 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 labors, in watchings, in fastings;
[6]By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,
[7]By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
[8]By honor and dishonor, 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 always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
[11]O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
[12]Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
[13]Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to 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 I will be a Father to you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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