2 Corinthians 6:3-7:1
American Standard Version
3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed; 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much [a]patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; [b]by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. 13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. 14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with [c]Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement hath a [d]temple of God with idols? for we are a [e]temple of the living God; even as God said, [f]I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore
[g]Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord,
And touch no unclean thing;
And I will receive you,
18 [h]And will be to you a Father,
And ye shall be to me sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty. 7 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:4 Or, stedfastness
- 2 Corinthians 6:7 Greek through.
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Or, sanctuary
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Or, sanctuary
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Ex. 29:45; Ezek. 37:27; Jer. 31:1.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isa. 52:11.
- 2 Corinthians 6:18 Hos. 1:10; Isa. 43:6.
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