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    2 Corinthians · 18 verses

    2 Corinthians 6

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    The workers carry “the weapons of righteousness” in both hands, pass through beatings and sleepless nights, and somehow emerge poor yet making many rich, with nothing and everything at once.

    The workers, armed on both sidesvv. 1–13

    The appeal begins in the present tense: now is the time of favor, now the day of salvation. The speakers offer their ministry a remarkably crowded passport—troubles, riots, hunger, purity, kindness, truthful speech, and the power of God—before producing the chapter’s splendidly specific equipment: righteousness in both hands. Their public reputation behaves no more sensibly than their possessions: glory and dishonor, slander and praise, imposters yet genuine, unknown yet well-known. At the centre of it all, their hearts stand open wide to the Corinthians, whose affection, rather pointedly, is said to be the thing under restraint.

    A house with no room for idolsvv. 14–18

    The chapter turns from the workers’ strange double ledger to a series of questions about incompatible companions: righteousness and wickedness, light and darkness, Christ and Belial, believer and unbeliever. The temple of the living God is then given a voice of its own: God will dwell and walk among the people, and the commands follow in brisk succession—come out, be separate, touch no unclean thing. The final promise makes the household language wonderfully expansive: sons and daughters, with the Lord Almighty named as Father.

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    1. 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

    2. 2 Cor 6:2For 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!

    3. 2 Cor 6:3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

    4. 2 Cor 6:4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

    5. 2 Cor 6:5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

    6. 2 Cor 6:6in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

    7. 2 Cor 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

    8. 2 Cor 6:8through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

    9. 2 Cor 6:9unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

    10. 2 Cor 6:10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

    11. 2 Cor 6:11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

    12. 2 Cor 6:12It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

    13. 2 Cor 6:13As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children—open wide your hearts also.

    14. 2 Cor 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    15. 2 Cor 6:15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

    16. 2 Cor 6:16What 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 them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

    17. 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

    18. 2 Cor 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

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    • 16Revelation 21:3And 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.
    • 16Exodus 29:45Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
    • 16Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
    • 16Leviticus 26:12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
    • 16Ezekiel 37:26–27And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
    • 16Jeremiah 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
    • 161 Corinthians 3:16–17Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
    • 16Ezekiel 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
    • 16Zechariah 2:10–11“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
    • 16Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
    • 16Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
    • 141 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
    • 161 John 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
    • 141 Corinthians 10:21You 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.
    • 2Isaiah 49:8This 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,
    • 14James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

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