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6:1 |
ee then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine. |
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6:2 |
(For he saith, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee: beholde, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of saluation) |
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6:3 |
Giuing no offence in any thing, that the ministery be not blamed: |
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6:4 |
But in all things approuing our selues, as the Ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, |
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6:5 |
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, |
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6:6 |
By purenesse, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindnesse, by the holy Ghost, by loue vnfained, |
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6:7 |
By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse, on the right hand, and on the left, |
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6:8 |
By honour and dishonour, by euil report and good report, as deceiuers and yet true: |
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6:9 |
As vnknowen, & yet wel knowen: as dying, and behold, we liue: as chastened, and not killed: |
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6:10 |
As sorrowfull, yet alway reioycing: as poore, yet making many rich: as hauing nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
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6:11 |
O yee Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you, our heart is enlarged. |
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6:12 |
Yee are not straitened in vs, but yee are straitned in your owne bowels. |
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6:13 |
Nowe for a recompense in the same, (I speake as vnto my children) be ye also inlarged. |
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6:14 |
Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darknesse? |
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6:15 |
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that beleeueth, with an infidel? |
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6:16 |
And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idoles? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God, as God hath saide, I will dwell in them, and walke in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. |
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6:17 |
Wherefore come out from among them, and bee yee separate, saieth the Lord, and touch not the vncleane thing, and I will receiue you, |
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6:18 |
And will bee a Father vnto you, and ye shall bee my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord Almightie. |
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