| 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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| 2: (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; |
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| 6: By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by
the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, |
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| 7: By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of
righteousness on the right hand and on the left, |
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| 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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| 11: 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. |
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| 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? |
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| 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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| 17: 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. |
