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We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain (6:1)

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.) (6:2)

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: (6:3)

But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, (6:4)

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; (6:5)

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, (6:6)

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (6:7)

By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true; (6:8)

As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; (6:9)

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things (6:10)

O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged (6:11)

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels (6:12)

Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children, ) be ye also enlarged (6:13)

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (6:14)

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (6:15)

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people (6:16)

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you, (6:17)

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (6:18)

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