2 Corinthians 6:1-13 ▼

1 But working together we indeed intreat you not to have received the grace of God in vain:

2 (for he says, At a set time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I assisted you; behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);

3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, in order that the ministry may not be blamed;

4 but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties,

5 in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings;

6 by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

7 by the word of truth, by the power of God; through the arms of righteousness right and left,

8 through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;

9 as being unknown, and perfectly known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and not killed;

10 as sorrowing, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

12 Be not straitened in reference to us, but be straitened in your own affections.

13 But as I speak to children, you indeed receive this reward.