Второ Коринтяни 6
Bulgarian New Testament: Easy-to-Read Version
6 Като Божии съработници ние също ви увещаваме да не позволите да се осуети Божията благодат, която получихте. 2 Бог казва:
„Чух те, когато трябваше.
Да, помогнах ти в деня за спасение.“(A)
Чуй! Сега е това време. Виж! Сега е денят за спасение.
3 Ние се опитваме да не пречим на никого, за да не винят хората нашето служение. 4 Точно обратното: по всякакъв начин показваме, че сме Божии служители — като търпеливо понасяме беди, трудности и големи проблеми. 5 Показваме го, когато ни бичуват, хвърлят в затвори, бият при бунтове, когато изнемогваме от работа, прекарваме безсънни нощи и гладуваме. 6 Показваме го с чистотата на живота си, с познанията си, с търпението и добротата си, с даровете от Святия Дух, с искрената си любов, 7 като говорим истината и действаме чрез Божията сила. Живеейки праведно, ние се защитаваме от всичко. 8 Някои ни почитат, други ни позорят. Някои ни хулят, други ни възхваляват. Честни сме, а гледат на нас като на измамници; 9 въпреки че сме добре известни, ни считат за неизвестни; смятат ни за умиращи, но вижте — ние сме живи! Подлагат ни на страдание, но не ни убиват; 10 гледат на нас като на скърбящи, въпреки че ние винаги сме радостни; смятат ни за бедни, въпреки че правим богати много хора; мислят, че нямаме нищо, въпреки че притежаваме всичко.
11 Коринтяни, говорихме ви напълно открито. Сърцата ни са широко отворени за вас. 12 Не ние възпираме чувствата си на обич към вас: вие възпирате чувствата си на обич към нас. 13 Като на свои деца ви говоря — отворете сърцата си за нас, както ние отворихме сърцата си за вас.
Предупреждение относно езичниците
14 Не ставайте неподходящи партньори с невярващи, защото каква връзка могат да имат праведността и беззаконието? Или какво общение да съществува между светлината и мрака? 15 И как могат да постигнат съгласие Христос и Велиар[a]? Или какво има да споделя вярващият с невярващия? 16 И могат ли Божият храм и идолите да бъдат на едно и също място? Защото ние сме храмът на живия Бог, както Бог каза:
„Ще живея сред тях
и ще ходя сред тях,
ще бъда техният Бог
и те ще бъдат моят народ.(B)
17 Затова ги напуснете и се отделете —
казва Господ.
Не докосвайте нищо нечисто
и аз ще ви приема.(C)
18 Аз ще бъда ваш Баща,
а вие ще сте мои синове и дъщери
— казва всемогъщият Господ.“(D)
Footnotes
- Второ Коринтяни 6:15 Велиар Разновидност на еврейската дума „велиал“, която означава „някой без стойност“ или „зъл човек“ и се използва като синоним на Сатана или Антихриста.
2 Corinthians 6
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 As fellow workers we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 For he says:
At a favorable time I listened to you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.[a]
Look, now is the favorable time! See, now is the day of salvation!
3 We are giving no one a reason to stumble in any way, so that our ministry will not be blamed. 4 Rather, in every way we show ourselves to be God’s ministers: in great endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties, 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in hard work, in sleepless nights, in times of hunger; 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness on the right and on the left; 8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report; treated as deceivers yet being honest, 9 treated as unknown and yet being well known; as dying, and yet look—we live; as punished yet not put to death; 10 as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet making many rich; as having nothing yet possessing everything.
11 We have spoken to you openly,[b] Corinthians. Our heart is standing wide open. 12 We have plenty of room for you, but you do not have room for us in your affections. 13 I am speaking as to my children: In exchange, open your hearts wide too.
Do Not Be Yoked With Unbelievers
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial?[c] Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever? 16 And what mutual agreement does God’s temple have with idols? For you[d] are the temple of the living God, just as God said:
I will live and walk among them.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.[e]
17 Therefore come out from them, and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you.[f]
18 I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.[g]
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8
- 2 Corinthians 6:11 Literally Our mouth is opened to you. This is an idiom for open and honest communication.
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek has Beliar. Belial is the more common spelling. It is a reference to Satan.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Some witnesses to the text read we.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41
- 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8
2 Corinthians 6
Easy-to-Read Version
6 We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace that you received from God be for nothing. 2 God says,
“I heard you at the right time,
and I gave you help on the day of salvation.” (A)
I tell you that the “right time” is now. The “day of salvation” is now.
3 We don’t want people to find anything wrong with our work. So we do nothing that will be a problem to others. 4 But in every way we show that we are servants of God. We never give up, even though we face troubles, difficulties, and problems of every kind. 5 We are beaten and thrown into prison. People get upset at us and fight against us. We work hard, and sometimes we get no sleep or food. 6 We show that we are God’s servants by our pure lives, by our understanding, by our patience, and by our kindness. We show it by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love, 7 by speaking the truth, and by depending on God’s power. This right way of living has prepared us to defend ourselves against every kind of attack.
8 Some people honor us, but others shame us. Some people say good things about us, but others say bad things. Some people say we are liars, but we speak the truth. 9 To some people we are not known, but we are well known. We seem to be dying, but look! We continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed. 10 We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people rich in faith. We have nothing, but really we have everything.
11 We have spoken freely to you people in Corinth. We have opened our hearts to you. 12 Our feelings of love for you have not stopped. It is you who have stopped your feelings of love for us. 13 I speak to you as if you were my children. Do the same as we have done—open your hearts also.
We Are God’s Temple
14 You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room. 15 How can there be any unity between Christ and the devil[a]? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 God’s temple[b] cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said,
“I will live with them
and walk with them;
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.” (B)
17 “So come away from those people
and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
Don’t touch anything that is not clean,
and I will accept you.” (C)
18 “I will be your father,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord All-Powerful.” (D)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 the devil Literally, “ beliar,” one form of the Hebrew word “ belial,” which means “worthlessness” and was used to refer to the devil or the enemy of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 God’s temple God’s house—the place where God’s people worship him. Here, it means that believers are the spiritual temple where God lives.
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