Moffatt(i)
8 amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,
9 'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed,
10 grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.
11 O Corinthians, I am keeping nothing back from you; my heart is wide open for you.
12 'Restraint'? — that lies with you, not me.
13 A fair exchange now, as the children say! Open your hearts wide to me.
14 [Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?
15 What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,