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2 Corinthians 6 (AMP)

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¹ LABORING TOGETHER with Him then, we beg of you not to receive the grace of God in vain . ² For He says, In the time of favor (of an assured welcome) I have listened to and heeded your call, and I have helped you on the day of deliverance (the day of salvation). Behold, now is truly the time for a gracious welcome and acceptance ; behold, now is the day of salvation! ³ We put no obstruction in anybody's way , so that no fault may be found and ministry blamed and discredited. ⁴ But we commend ourselves in every way as servants of God: through great endurance, in tribulation and suffering, in hardships and privations, in sore straits and calamities, ⁵ In beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless watching, hunger; ⁶ By innocence and purity, knowledge and spiritual insight, longsuffering and patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love; ⁷ By the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left hand ; ⁸ Amid honor and dishonor; in defaming and evil report and in praise and good report. as deceivers (impostors), and truthful and honest. ⁹ as unknown and ignored , and well-known and recognized ; as dying, and yet here we are alive; as chastened by suffering and not killed; ¹⁰ As grieved and mourning, yet always rejoicing; as poor bestowing riches on many; as having nothing, and possessing all things. ¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians , and our heart is expanded wide ! ¹² There is no lack of room for you in , but you lack room in your own affections . ¹³ By way of return then, do this for me--I speak as to children--open wide your hearts also . ¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers . For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial ? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What agreement a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ¹⁷ So, come out from among , and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor, ¹⁸ And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.