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1 As God’s fellow workers, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2 For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
3 We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
5 in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger;
6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
8 through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors;
9 as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
11 We have spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, and our hearts have been wide open to you.
12 We are not holding back [our affections] from you, but you are holding back your affections [from us].
13 Now in a fair exchangeI speak as to my childrenopen wide your hearts also.
14 Do not enter a mismatch with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
17 Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.
18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."