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¹ And working together [with him] we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain² (for he says, At an acceptable time I listened to you, And in a day of salvation I helped you: look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation):³ giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service not be blamed;⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts;⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love,⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,⁸ by glory and shame, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;⁹ as unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and look, we live; as chastened, and not killed;¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.¹² You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.¹³ Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as to [my] children), be also enlarged.¹⁴ Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion has light with darkness?¹⁵ And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?¹⁶ And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.¹⁷ Therefore Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,¹⁸ And will be to you a Father, And you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.