2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10

Tree of Life Version

²⁰ We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God. ²¹ He made the One who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf,^[a] so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

6 Since we are co-laboring, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. ² For He says,

Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. ³ We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our ministry may not be blamed. ⁴ But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, ⁵ in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleeplessness, in hunger; ⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Ruach ha-Kodesh, in genuine love, ⁷ in truthful speech, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸ through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report. We are regarded as deceivers and yet true; ⁹ as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death; ^{[c] 10} as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.