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Chapter 6 |
| 1 | We then, as
workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of
God in vain. |
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| (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.) |
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3 | Giving no offence in any
thing, that the ministry be not blamed: |
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4 | But in all things approving
ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, |
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5 | In stripes, in imprisonments, in
tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; |
| 6 | By pureness,
by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, |
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| By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour
of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, |
| 8 | By honour and
dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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| 9 | As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as
chastened, and not killed; |
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10 | As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as
poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all
things. |
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| O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart
is enlarged. |
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12 | Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened
in your own bowels. |
| 13 | Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak
as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. |
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14 | Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? |
| 15 | And
what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with
an infidel? |
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16 | 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. |
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| Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
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| 18 | And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty. |
