1So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold now the accepted time, behold now the day of salvation.
3We give no occasion of offence in anything, that our ministry should not be reprehended.
4But in all things we approve ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.
5In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors,
6By watchings, by fastings, by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand, and on the left,
8By honor, and dishonor, by evil report, and good report, as deceivers, and yet true:
9As unknown, and yet known: as dying, and behold, we live, as chastened, and yet not killed:
10As sorrowing, and yet always rejoicing: as poor, and yet making many rich: as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11O Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is made large.
12Ye are not kept strait in us, but ye are kept strait in your own bowels.
13Now for the same recompense, I speak as to my children, Be you also enlarged.
14Be not unequally yoked with the infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the believer with the infidel?
16And 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 among them, and walk there: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch none unclean thing, and I will receive you.
18And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.