behold, now is the well accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation;) (3)giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed; (4)but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, (5)in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; (6)in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, (7)in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (8)through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and true; (9)as unknown, and well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; (10)as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things. (11)O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged. (12)Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. (13)Now as a recompense in the same kind (I speak as to my children), be ye also enlarged. (14)Be not yoked unequally with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? (15)And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? (16)And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God; as God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people. (17)Wherefore, come out from among them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not anything unclean; and I will receive you, (18)and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. VII. HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2)Receive us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one. (3)I say it not for condemnation; for I have before said, that ye are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. (4)Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on account of you; I am filled with the consolation, I am made to abound with the joy, in all our affliction.