1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 By honour and dishonour, 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 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
1 我们这些与 神同工的， 也劝你们不要白受 神的恩典。
2 因为他说： "在悦纳的时候， 我应允了你； 在拯救的日子， 我帮助了你。"看哪！ 现在就是悦纳的时候， 现在就是拯救的日子。
3 我们凡事都没有妨碍人， 不让这职分受到毁谤，
4 反而在各样的事上， 表明自己是 神的仆人， 就如持久的忍耐、患难、贫乏、困苦、
5 鞭打、监禁、扰乱、劳苦、不睡觉、禁食、
6 纯洁、知识、容忍、恩慈、圣灵、无伪的爱心、
7 真理的道、 神的大能等事上； 并且是借着左右两手中公义的武器，
8 借着荣耀和羞辱、坏名声和好名誉。我们好像是骗人的， 却是真诚的，
9 好像是人所不知的， 却是人所共知的； 好像是必死的， 你看， 我们却是活着的； 好像是受惩罚的， 却没有处死；
10 好像忧愁， 却是常常喜乐的； 好像贫穷， 却使很多人富足； 好像是什么都没有， 却是样样都有。
11 哥林多人哪！ 我们对你们， 口是坦率的， 心是宽宏的。
12 并不是我们对你们器量小， 而是你们自己心胸狭窄。
13 你们也要照样以宽宏的心对待我们， 这话正像是我对儿女说的。
14 你们和不信的人不可共负一轭， 义和不法有什么相同呢？光明和黑暗怎能相通呢？
15 基督和彼列（"彼列"是撒但的别名）怎能和谐呢？信的和不信的有什么联系呢？
16 神的殿和偶像怎能协调呢？我们就是永生 神的殿， 正如 神说： "我要住在他们中间， 在他们中间来往； 我要作他们的 神， 他们要作我的子民。"
17 所以， "主说： 你们要从他们中间出来， 和他们分开， 不可触摸不洁净的东西， 我就收纳你们。"
18 "我要作你们的父亲， 你们要作我的儿女。这是全能的主说的。"