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¹ Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.² For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.³ We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,⁴ but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,⁵ beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger;⁶ by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love,⁷ truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;⁸ in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;⁹ as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide.¹² You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.¹³ In return--I speak as to children--widen your hearts also.¹⁴ Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?¹⁵ What accord has Christ with Be'lial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?¹⁶ What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.¹⁷ Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,¹⁸ and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."