1 And working together, we also exhort you⁺ not to receive the grace of God in vain. VP
2 For He says: “In [the] acceptable time I listened to you, and in [the] day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now [is] [the] favorable time; behold, now [is] [the] day of salvation. VP
3 We are giving no cause of stumbling among [anyone], so that the ministry should not be blamed, VP
4 but in everything we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses; VP
5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings; VP
6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness; in [the] Holy Spirit, in sincere love; VP
7 in [the] word of truth, in [the] power of God; through the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for [the] left; VP
8 through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report; as imposters yet true; VP
9 as being unknown yet being well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as being disciplined yet not being put to death; VP
10 as being sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing everything. VP
11 Our mouth has been open to you⁺, Corinthians; our heart has been enlarged. VP
12 You⁺ are not restrained by us, but you⁺ are restrained in your⁺ [own] inner parts. VP
13 Now [as] the same recompense—I speak as to children—you⁺ be enlarged also. VP
14 Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership [have] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [has] light with darkness? VP
15 And what harmony [has] Christ with Beliar? Or what part to a believer [is] with an unbeliever? VP
16 And what agreement [has] the temple of God with idols? For we are [the] temple of [the] living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them, and I will walk among [them], and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” VP
17 “Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says [the] Lord, and touch no unclean [thing], and I will receive you⁺.” VP
18 And: “I will be for a Father to you⁺, and you⁺ will be for sons and daughters to Me, says [the] Lord Almighty.” VP