¹ As fellow-workers, then, with him, we also exhort you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain;

² (for he saith: "In an accepted time I heard thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee;" Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation;)

³ giving no occasion for stumbling in anything, that the ministry may not be blamed;

⁴ but as God’s ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

⁸ through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true;

⁹ as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

¹² Ye have not a narrow place in my heart, but ye have a narrow place for me in yours.

¹³ So then in return, I speak to you as children, let your hearts be enlarged.

¹⁴ Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God said: "I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

¹⁷ "Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean;" "and I will receive you,

¹⁸ and will be to you a father, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."