2 Corinthians 6:1-13 ▼

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.

13 Now as the same recompense—I speak as to children—you? be enlarged also.