2 Corinthians 6:1-12 ▼

1 And working together, we also exhort you? not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 For He says: “In the acceptable time I listened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

3 We are giving no cause of stumbling among anyone, so that the ministry should not be blamed,

4 but in everything we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses;

5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness; in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love;

7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report; as imposters yet true;

9 as being unknown yet being well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as being disciplined yet not being put to death;

10 as being sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

11 Our mouth has been open to you?, Corinthians; our heart has been enlarged.

12 You? are not restrained by us, but you? are restrained in your? own inner parts.