2 Corinthians 6
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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.)
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,
5 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.
11 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?
15 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.
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,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Cross-references
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- 1Heb 12:15, 1Co 3:9, 1Pe 4:10, 2Co 5:18–20, Gal 2:21, Rom 12:1, 2Co 8:1–2, Heb 12:25
- 2Isa 49:8, Heb 4:7, Heb 3:13, Isa 61:2, Heb 3:7, Luk 19:42–44, Luk 4:19, Ezk 16:8
- 3Rom 14:13, 1Co 9:12, 1Co 10:32–33, Mat 18:6, Mat 17:27, 1Co 9:22, 1Co 8:9–13, 1Co 10:23–24
- 42Co 12:10, 2Co 4:8, 2Co 11:27, 1Co 4:11–12, Rom 8:35–36, Rom 5:3–4, Php 4:11–12, 1Co 3:5
- 52Co 11:23–25, 2Co 11:27, Act 19:23–34, Heb 11:36, Act 17:5, Act 21:27–35, Ezk 3:17, 2Ti 4:5
- 6Eph 4:32, Col 1:27, Gal 5:22, Eph 4:2, Gal 3:5, 2Co 3:3, 2Co 2:4, 2Co 12:15
- 72Co 4:2, Eph 6:11–20, 2Ti 2:15, 2Co 10:4–5, 2Co 13:4, Eph 3:20, 1Th 5:8, Jas 1:18
- 8Mat 27:63, 1Pe 4:14, 1Ti 4:10, Act 24:5, Act 28:22, Rev 3:9, Jhn 7:12, Mat 22:16
- 92Co 4:10–11, Rom 8:36, 2Co 1:8–10, 2Co 4:2, 1Co 4:9, Psa 118:17–18, 2Co 11:6, Act 21:37–38
- 10Jhn 16:22, 2Co 8:9, Rev 2:9, Jas 2:5, 1Pe 1:6–8, 1Ti 4:8, Heb 10:34, Php 4:4
- 112Co 12:15, Psa 119:32, 2Co 7:3–4, Php 1:8, 2Co 2:4, Php 4:15, Gal 3:1, 1Sa 2:1
- 122Co 7:2, Mic 2:7, Php 1:8, Job 36:16, 1Jn 3:17, Ecc 6:9, Pro 4:12
- 133Jn 1:4, 1Jn 3:18, 1Jn 2:1, 1Co 4:14–15, 1Jn 3:7, 1Th 2:11, Mat 9:28–29, Mat 17:19–20
- 141Co 15:33, 1Co 10:21, Jas 4:4, Eph 5:6–14, Lev 19:19, 1Pe 2:9–10, Psa 26:4–5, Deu 22:9–11
- 151Co 10:20–21, 1Jn 5:11–13, 1Ki 18:21, 1Sa 5:2–4, Act 5:14, Mrk 16:16, Act 8:20, Ezr 4:3
- 16Rev 21:3, Exo 29:45, Heb 8:10, Lev 26:12, Jer 32:38, Ezk 37:26–27, 1Co 3:16–17, Ezk 11:20
- 17Isa 52:11, Rev 18:4, 2Co 7:1, Psa 1:1–3, Num 16:26, Ezr 10:11, Pro 9:6, Act 2:40
- 18Jhn 1:12, Rev 21:7, 2Sa 7:14, Rom 8:14–17, Gal 4:5–7, Gal 3:26, Jer 31:9, Rom 8:29
Topics in this chapter
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Adoption, Afflictions and Adversities, Armor, Belial, Character, Church, Communion, Company, Darkness, Fasting, Fellowship, God, Gospel, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Joy, Longsuffering, Love, Marriage, Minister, Christian, Obedience, Paradox, Partnership, Patience, Paul, Persecution, Poor, Power, Prisoners, Quotations and Allusions, Resignation, Salvation, Satan, Self-Denial, Slander, Stripes, Temple, Truth, Unbelief, War, Zeal, Religious