1 Working together but also we exhort, not in vain the favor of the God to receive you;
2 (he says for: In a season acceptable I listened to thee and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Lo, now a season well accepted, lo, now a day of salvation.)
3 No one in any thing giving offence, so that not may be blamed the service;
4 but in every thing establishing ourselves as of God servants, in patience much, in affliction, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in spirit holy, in love unfeigned,
7 in a word of truth, in power of God; through the arms of the righteousness of the rights and of lefts,
8 through glory and disgrace, through bad fame and good fame; and deceivers and true;
9 as being ignorant, and being duly appreciated; as dying, and lo we live; as being corrected, and not put to death;
10 as being grieved, always but rejoicing; as poor, many but making rich; as nothing having; and all things possessing.
11 The mouth of us has been opened to you, O Corinthians, the heart of us has been enlarged.
12 Not you are straitened in us; you are straitened but in the bowels of you.
13 The but same recompense, (as to children I speak,) be enlarged also you.
14 Not be you unequally yoking with unbelievers; what for participation righteousness and lawlessness? what and fellowship light with darkness?
15 What and agreement of an Anointed with Belial? or what portion to a believer with an unbeliever?
16 what and connection a temple of God with idols? You for a temple of God are living; as said the God: That I will in dwell among them, and will walk about in; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
17 Wherefore come you out from midst of them and be you separated, says Lord, and of an unclean thing not touch you; and I will receive you,
18 and I will be to you for a Father, and you shall be to me for sons and daughters, says Lord Almighty.
1 Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain to no purposein emptiness.
2 For he said: 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!
3 Give no occasion for stumbling offence in anything that our ministry may not be blamed discredited.
4 In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, our figurative heart is wide open enlarged.
12 We do not restrict you, but you are restricted by your own affections.
13 Now in return for the same in like kind I speak as to my children, you also be open open your hearts wide!
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?
15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? We are the temple of the living God. God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Leviticus 26:12) (Zechariah 8:8)
17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate set offsevered from themexcluded from them, said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)
18 I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)