2 Corinthians 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,
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I have heard thee in a time accepted, |
and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: Is.
49.8 |
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation.) |
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Giving no offense in any thing, that the
ministry be not blamed:
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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, Acts
16.23 in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in
fastings;
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by pureness, by knowledge, by
long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned,
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by the word of truth, by the power of
God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the
left,
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by honor and dishonor, by evil report and
good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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as unknown, and yet well known; as
dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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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.
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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are
straitened in your own bowels.
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Now for a recompense in the same, (I
speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
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Ye Are the Temple of
the Living God |
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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
Be'li-al? or what part hath he that believeth with an
infidel?
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And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; 1 Cor. 3.16 ; 6.19 as
God hath said,
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I will dwell in them, and walk in them; |
and I will be their God, |
and they shall be my people. Lev.
26.12 · Ezek.
37.27 |
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Wherefore come out from among them,
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and be ye separate, |
saith the Lord, |
and touch not the unclean thing; Is.
52.11 |
and I will receive
you, |
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and will be a Father unto you,
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