6:1 And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God -- |
6:2 for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now `is' a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' -- |
6:3 in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed, |
6:4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, |
6:5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, |
6:6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, |
6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left, |
6:8 through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true; |
6:9 as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death; |
6:10 as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things. |
6:11 Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged! |
6:12 ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels, |
6:13 and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye! |
6:14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness? |
6:15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? |
6:16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, |
6:17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you, |
6:18 and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.' |