2 Corinthians 6 · Clearspring

Paul’s Hardships and God’s Grace

¹Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.+ ²For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.+ ³We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,+ ⁴but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,+ ⁵in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,+ ⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,+ ⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,+ ⁸by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,+ ⁹as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,+ ¹⁰as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.+ ¹¹Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.+ ¹²You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.+ ¹³Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.+

Do Not Be Unequally Yoked

¹⁴Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?+ ¹⁵What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?+ ¹⁶What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”+ ¹⁷Therefore “‘Come out from amongst them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.+ ¹⁸I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”+

Paul’s Hardships and God’s Grace

Do Not Be Unequally Yoked

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