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6:1 As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 6:2 For he says, "At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! 6:3 We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 6:4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 6:5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6:6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, 6:7 truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 6:8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 6:9 as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see-- we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; 6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 6:11 We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. 6:12 There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. 6:13 In return-- I speak as to children-- open wide your hearts also. 6:14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness? 6:15 What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 6:16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 6:17 Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, 6:18 and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."