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2 Corinthians · Chapter 6

2 Corinthians 6

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Paul’s Hardships and God’s Grace

1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.*

2For He says:“In the time of favor I heard you,and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!*

3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

6in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

8through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

9as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

13As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

Do Not Be Unequally Yoked

14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?*

16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:“I will dwell with themand walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be My people.”*

17“Therefore come out from among themand be separate, says the Lord.Touch no unclean thing,and I will receive you.”*

18And:“I will be a Father to you,and you will be My sons and daughters,says the Lord Almighty.”*

Source notes

  1. 6:1 Literally Now working together
  2. 6:2 Isaiah 49:8 (see also LXX) Read Isaiah 49:8
  3. 6:15 Scrivener’s TR and GOC; many Greek sources Beliar
  4. 6:16 Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27 Read Leviticus 26:12 Read Jeremiah 32:38 Read Ezekiel 37:27
  5. 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; see also Ezekiel 20:34, including LXX. Read Isaiah 52:11 Read Ezekiel 20:34
  6. 6:18 See 2 Samuel 7:14. Read 2 Samuel 7:14

Old Testament references

References from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Text from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:27

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:34

With a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered.

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Jeremiah 8:8

How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Ezekiel 16:8

Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

Joel 1:9

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Deuteronomy 25:3

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

1 Kings 22:27

and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

Jeremiah 33:1

While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

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