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¹ As co-workers, however, we also beseech, that, not in vain, the favour of God, ye welcome;² For he saith - In an approved season, have I hearkened unto thee, and, in a day of salvation, have succoured thee; - Lo! now, a well-approved season, Lo! now, a day of salvation:³ Giving, no single, occasion of stumbling, in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;⁴ But, in everything, commending ourselves as God's ministers, - in much endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in straits,⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings,⁶ in sanctity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in graciousness, in Holy Spirit,⁷ in love unfeigned, in discourse of truth, in power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and left,⁸ through glory and dishonour, through bad report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true,⁹ as unknown, and yet well-known, as dying, and lo! we live, as disciplined, and yet not put to death,¹⁰ as grieving, yet, ever, rejoicing, as destitute, yet making, many, rich, as holding, nothing, and yet firmly holding, all things.

¹¹ Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but are straitened in your hearts' affections;¹³ Howbeit, by way of the like recompense - as, unto children, I speak, be enlarged, even, ye.¹⁴ Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?¹⁶ And what agreement hath a shrine of God with idols? For, we, are the shrine of a God, that liveth: - even as God hath said - will dwell in them, and walk, and will be their God, and, they, shall be my people. ¹⁷ Wherefore come ye forth out of their midst, and be separated, - saith the Lord, - and, one impure, do not touch; and, I, will give you welcome,¹⁸ And will become your Father, and, ye, shall become my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.