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Chapter 6 |
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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: |
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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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, |
7 | 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; |
9 | As unknown, and
yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not
killed; |
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. |
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. |
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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And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? |
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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And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
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