2 Corinthians (2 Co) 6
6
1As God’s fellow-workers we also urge you not to receive his grace and then do nothing with it. 2For he says,
“At the acceptable time I heard you;
in the day of salvation I helped you.”
3We try not to put obstacles in anyone’s path, so that no one can find fault with the work we do. 4On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities, 5beatings, imprisonments, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food. 6We commend ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach HaKodesh; by genuineness of love 7and truthfulness of speech; and by God’s power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons, whether for pressing our cause or defending it; 8through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere, 9unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed; 10as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!
11Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you, we have opened our hearts wide. 12Any constraint you feel has not been imposed by us, but by your own inner selves. 13So, just to be “fair” (I am using the language of children), open wide your hearts too.
14Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness? 15What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said,
“I will house myself in them, . . .
and I will walk among you.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
17Therefore Adonai says,
“‘Go out from their midst;
separate yourselves;
don’t even touch what is unclean.
Then I myself will receive you.
18In fact, I will be your Father,
and you will be my sons and daughters.’
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”
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1Since we are co-laboring, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2For He says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our ministry may not be blamed.
4But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleeplessness, in hunger;
6in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Ruach ha-Kodesh, in genuine love,
7in truthful speech, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
8through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report. We are regarded as deceivers and yet true;
9as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death;
10as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.
11We have spoken openly to you, O Corinthians; our heart is open wide!
12You are not restricted by us, yet you are restricted in your own feelings.
13Now in return—I speak as to my children—open wide to us also.
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14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
15What harmony does Messiah have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
16What agreement does God’s Temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God—just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
17Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate, says Adonai. Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in.
18I will be a father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”
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