Twenty - II Corinthians - 6

6:1  Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

6:2  For he says--'At the time for acceptance I listened to thee, And on the day of deliverance I helped thee.' Now is the time for acceptance! Now is the day of deliverance!

6:3  Never do we put an obstacle in any one's way, that no fault may be found with our ministry.

6:4  No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,

6:5  In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

6:6  By purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindliness, by holiness of spirit, by unfeigned love;

6:7  By the Message of Truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

6:8  Amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true;

6:9  As unknown, yet well-known; as at death's door, yet, see, we are living; as chastised, yet not killed;

6:10  As saddened, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things!

6:11  We have been speaking freely to you, men of Corinth; we have opened our heart;

6:12  There is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us.

6:13  Can you not in return--I appeal to you as I should to children--open your hearts to us?

6:14  Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?

6:15  What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? or what can those who accept the Faith have in common with those who reject it?

6:16  What agreement can thee be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the Living God. That is what God meant when he said-- 'I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

6:17  Therefore "Come out from among the nations, and separate yourselves from them," says the Lord, "and touch nothing impure; And I will welcome you;

6:18  And I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters," says the Lord, the Ruler of all.'