¹And as co-workers we also exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain – ²for he says, Behold, the time is now most acceptable; behold, now is the day of salvation – ³not giving any offence in anything, so that the ministry is not faulted, ⁴but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, with much endurance in tribulations, in constrained circumstances, in hardships, ⁵in stricken circumstances, in imprisonments, in commotions, in toils, in sleeplessness, in fastings, ⁶in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in holy spirit, in unfeigned love, ⁷in the word of truth, in the power of God through the right and left hand armour of righteousness, ⁸through glory and dishonour, through defamations and acclamations, defamed as deceivers and acclaimed as tellers of the truth, ⁹as unrecognized and as recognized, as dying, but look, we are alive, as being chastised but not put to death, ¹⁰as grieving but always rejoicing, as poor but enriching many, as having nothing but possessing everything. ¹¹Our communication stands open to you, you Corinthians; our heart stands wide open. ¹²You need not be under strain as far as we are concerned, but you are under strain in your feelings from your side. ¹³Show yourselves wide open as well – I speak as to children – so we have the same mutual benefit. ¹⁴Do not be disparately yoked to unbelievers, for what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? And what fellowship does light have with darkness? ¹⁵And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? ¹⁶And what compatibility is there between the sanctuary of God and idols? For you are the sanctuary of the living God, as God has said, ¹⁷So and I will receive you, says the Lord Almighty.

Reference(s) in Chapter 6: v.2 ↔ Isaiah 49:8 ● v.16 ↔ Exodus 29:45, Leviticus 26:12, Jeremiah 30:22, Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 32:38, Ezekiel 37:27, Hosea 2:25^MT (Hosea 2:23^AV), Zechariah 8:8 ● v.17 ↔ Isaiah 52:11 ● v.18 ↔ 2 Samuel 7:14, 1 Chronicles 17:13.