| 1. | Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. |
| 2. | For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. |
| 3. | We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, |
| 4. | but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, |
| 5. | beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; |
| 6. | by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, |
| 7. | truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; |
| 8. | in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; |
| 9. | as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; |
| 10. | as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. |
| 11. | Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide. |
| 12. | You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. |
| 13. | In return -- I speak as to children -- widen your hearts also. |
| 14. | Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? |
| 15. | What accord has Christ with Be'lial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? |
| 16. | What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
| 17. | Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, |
| 18. | and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." |
