The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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(For he saith,
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I have heard thee in a time accepted, |
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and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: Is. 49.8 |
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Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) |
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Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
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but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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in stripes, in imprisonments, Acts 16.23 in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
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by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
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by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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¶ O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
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Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
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Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
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Ye Are the Temple of the Living God |
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¶ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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And what concord hath Christ with Be’li-al? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
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And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; 1 Cor. 3.16 ; 6.19 as God hath said,
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I will dwell in them, and walk in them; |
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and I will be their God, |
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and they shall be my people. Lev. 26.12 · Ezek. 37.27 |
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Wherefore come out from among them,
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and be ye separate, |
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saith the Lord, |
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and touch not the unclean thing; Is. 52.11 |
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and I will receive you, |
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and will be a Father unto you,
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