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| | 2Cr 6:1 | As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain.
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| | 2Cr 6:2 | For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
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| | 2Cr 6:3 | We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
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| | 2Cr 6:4 | Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
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| | 2Cr 6:5 | in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
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| | 2Cr 6:6 | in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
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| | 2Cr 6:7 | in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
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| | 2Cr 6:8 | through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
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| | 2Cr 6:9 | known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
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| | 2Cr 6:10 | sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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| | 2Cr 6:11 | We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.
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| | 2Cr 6:12 | We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.
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| | 2Cr 6:13 | As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your hearts also.
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| | 2Cr 6:14 | Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
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| | 2Cr 6:15 | What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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| | 2Cr 6:16 | What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
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| | 2Cr 6:17 | "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."
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| | 2Cr 6:18 | "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
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