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.)
Succoured:
- give assistance or aid to
- give relief to
- fulfill a need
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; 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.
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