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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16What 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 dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” |
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