2 Corinthians 6

• 1. As God's partners, we beg you not to reject this marvelous message of God's great kindness.
• 2. For God says, "At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you." Indeed, God is ready to help you right now. Today is the day of salvation.
• 3. We try to live in such a way that no one will be hindered from finding the Lord by the way we act, and so no one can find fault with our ministry.
• 4. In everything we do we try to show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.
• 5. We have been beaten, been put in jail, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food.
• 6. We have proved ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, our sincere love, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 7. We have faithfully preached the truth. God's power has been working in us. We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and to defend ourselves.
• 8. We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors.
• 9. We are well known, but we are treated as unknown. We live close to death, but here we are, still alive. We have been beaten within an inch of our lives.
• 10. Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.
• 11. Oh, dear Corinthian friends! We have spoken honestly with you. Our hearts are open to you.
• 12. If there is a problem between us, it is not because of a lack of love on our part, but because you have withheld your love from us.
• 13. I am talking now as I would to my own children. Open your hearts to us!
• 14. Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
• 15. What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
• 16. And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• 17. Therefore, come out from them and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you.
• 18. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "

New Living Translation: 155 of 260 days.