6:1 Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
6:2 For he says: "In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
6:3 We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry;
6:4 on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,
6:6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love,
6:7 in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left;
6:8 through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;
6:9 as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;
6:10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
6:11 We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.
6:12 You are not constrained by us; you are constrained by your own affections.
6:13 As recompense in kind (I speak as to my children), be open yourselves.
6:14 Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
6:15 What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what has a believer in common 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 with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
6:17 Therefore, come forth from them and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you
6:18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."