2 Corinthians 6
Paul appeals to the Corinthians not to receive God's grace in vain. He describes his ministry's hardships and paradoxes, sorrowful yet always rejoicing, poor yet making many rich. He urges believers not to be yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 CorinthiansChapter 6 of 1318 versesBerean Standard Bible
In this passage: Corinth
If God speaks to you through 2 Corinthians 6, record what He said in Doxa and come back to it.
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
For 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!
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“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,”
Read Isaiah 49:8›In the time of my favor I heard you — now is the time of salvation
“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,”
Read Isaiah 49:8›We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;
unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.
It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.
As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
What 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 them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
I will live with them and walk among them
“I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.”
Read Leviticus 26:12›I will be their God and they will be my people
“My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
Read Ezekiel 37:27›“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
Come out from them and be separate
“Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.”
Read Isaiah 52:11›And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
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“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,”
2 Corinthians 6:141 Corinthians 15:33
“Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.””
2 Corinthians 6:141 Corinthians 10:21
“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.”
2 Corinthians 6:16Revelation 21:3
“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.”
2 Corinthians 6:16Exodus 29:45
“Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.”
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