2 Corinthians 6

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Paul and his companions urge the Corinthians not to receive God's grace in vain, presenting themselves as servants of God through various endurance, troubles, hardships, and genuine actions. They state that they have spoken freely with open hearts and ask the Corinthians to open their hearts in return. Paul instructs them not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, questioning the partnership between righteousness and wickedness, light and darkness, Christ and Belial, and the temple of God and idols. Citing scriptural promises, he reminds them that they are the temple of the living God, whom the Lord will dwell among as a Father to His sons and daughters.

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¹As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. ²For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation! ³We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry. ⁴Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities; ⁵in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger; ⁶in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; ⁷in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; ⁸through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine; ⁹unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed; ¹⁰sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. ¹¹We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide. ¹²It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained. ¹³As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also. ¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? ¹⁵What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” ¹⁸And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

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