2 Corinthians 6

¹Working together with God, we also appeal to you: do not receive the grace of God in a way that leads to nothing. ²For he says: “At the favorable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I came to your aid.” Look! Now is the well-accepted time. Look! Now is the day of salvation.

³We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our service may not be found at fault. ⁴Instead, in every way we commend ourselves as servants of God: by great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in calamities, ⁵in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in exhausting labors, in sleepless nights, in hunger; ⁶by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love, ⁷by truthful speech, and by the power of God. We come with the weapons of justice in the right hand and in the left; ⁸through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report. We are treated as deceivers, and yet we are true; ⁹as unknown, and yet we are well known; as dying, and look! we live; as disciplined, and yet not put to death; ¹⁰as sorrowing, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

¹¹Our mouth has opened wide to you, Corinthians; our heart has been thrown wide open. ¹²You are not being squeezed by us, but you are being squeezed in your own deepest feelings. ¹³As a fair exchange—I speak to you as to my own children—open your hearts wide as well.

¹⁴Do not be mismatched under a different yoke with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between justice and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵What harmony is there between Christ and Beliar? Or what share does a believer have with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement does the sanctuary of God have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, just as God said: “I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹⁷Therefore, come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and do not touch what is unclean; then I will receive you. ¹⁸And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says the Lord, the All-Powerful.