2 Corinthians 6:1-13 ▼

1 WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

2 for he saith, ?In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I succoured thee.? Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

4 but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

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

7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left,

8 through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, yet true men;

9 as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death;

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

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

12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

13 Let us have a like return; I speak as unto children; be ye also enlarged.