¹ And working together-with him, we are also encouraging you° to not accept the grace of God in vain;

² (for$ he says, ‘I heard you at an acceptable time and I helped you in a day of salvation;’ {Isa 49:8} behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation),

³ giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in-order-that the service from us might not be blamed.

⁴ But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses,

⁵ in lashes, in prisons, in unrests, in labors, in sleeplessnesses, in fasts;

⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-pretended love$,

⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of the righteousness from the right hand and from the left hand,

⁸ through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good-repute; as misleaders and yet true$;

⁹ as being unrecognized and yet being fully known; as dying and behold, we live; as being disciplined and yet not being slain;

¹⁰ as being sorrowful, but habitually rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing and yet having all things.

¹¹ O Corinthians, our mouth has opened to you°, our heart has been widened.

¹² You° are not distressed by us, but you° are distressed by your° own affections$,

¹³ but the same as recompense (I speak to you as to my children). You° also, be° widened in your° hearts.

¹⁴ Do° not become unequally yoked with unbelieving ones; for$ what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believing one with an unbelieving one?

¹⁶ And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For$ you° are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they themselves will be a people to me.’

¹⁷ Hence ‘Come° forth from the midst of them and be° separate$,’ says the Lord, ‘And touch° no unclean thing, and I will accept you

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you° and you° will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’ {Lev 26:11-12; 2Sam 7:7, 14; Isa 52:11; Jer 32:38, 51:45; Ezek 20:34, 41, 37:27; Amos 4:13}