¹Now working together, we also exhort you not to receive the favor of God in vain;

²For he says, 'In a time of favor I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you.' Look, now is the time of great favor; look, now is the day of salvation.

³We are placing an obstacle before no one in nothing, so that the ministry may not be blemished,

⁴but rather in everything commending ourselves as God's servants: in great endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

⁵in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,

⁶in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left,

⁸through glory and dishonor, through bad report and good report, as imposters and yet true,

⁹as being unknown and yet being well-known, as dying and yet behold we live, as being disciplined and yet not being killed,

¹⁰as being sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹¹Our mouth has been opened to you, Corinthians, our heart has been expanded;

¹²you are not restrained by us, however you are restrained in your affections.

¹³Now as the same recompense—I speak as to children—open yourselves also, you.

¹⁴Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

¹⁵Now what harmony has the Anointed One with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

¹⁶Now what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we ourselves are the temple of the living God, even as God has said, "I will dwell in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they themselves will be a people to Me."

¹⁷Therefore come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; and I myself will receive you,

¹⁸and I will be a father to you, and you yourselves will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.