Today is the day of salvation
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📚We then, as workers together✭ with him, plead with you also not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 📚For he says,I have heard you in an
acceptable time,
and in the day of salvation
I have helped you.
Look, now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation.
Paul’s troubles, sufferings, and manner of life
3 📚✭✭We are giving no offense in anything, so that our ministry will not be not blamed, 4 📚✭but in everything we show ourselves to be servants of God: in much patient endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in distresses, 5 📚in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in hard work, in sleeplessness, in fastings, 6 📚✭by pureness, by understanding, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, 7 📚by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour✭ of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 📚✭by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report, regarded as deceivers, and yet true, 9 📚regarded as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and, see, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10 📚as sorrowful✭, yet always rejoicing; as poor✭, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things✭.
11 📚✭O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart has been made wide. 12 📚You are not restricted by us, you are restricted in your own inner being. 13 📚Now in return for this (I speak as to my children) you open wide to us.
Believers should not unite with unbelievers
14 📚✭Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light✭ with darkness? 15 📚And what accord has Christ with Belial✭? Or what part has the one who believes with an unbeliever? 16 📚✭And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said,
I will dwell in them, and walk
in them, and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
17 📚✭Therefore come out from among them,
and be separate, says the Lord,
and do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you,
18 📚and will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.