001 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
002 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
003 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
004 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
005 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
006 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
007 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
008 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
009 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
010 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
011 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
012 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
013 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
014 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
015 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
016 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.
017 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
018 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.