| 1. | Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. |
| 2. | For he says: "In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. |
| 3. | We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; |
| 4. | on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints, |
| 5. | beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts; |
| 6. | by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love, |
| 7. | in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left; |
| 8. | through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; |
| 9. | as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death; |
| 10. | as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. |
| 11. | We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide. |
| 12. | You are not constrained by us; you are constrained by your own affections. |
| 13. | As recompense in kind (I speak as to my children), be open yourselves. |
| 14. | Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? |
| 15. | What accord has Christ with Beliar? 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 with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. |
| 17. | Therefore, come forth from them and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you |
| 18. | and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty." |
