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We then, as workers together with him , beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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(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.)
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Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
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But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, approving: Gr. commending
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In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro
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By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
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By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
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Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
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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.
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Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ; and I will receive you,
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And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

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