en_cjb - 2Co 6 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ As God’s fellow-workers we also urge you not to receive his grace and then do nothing with it.

² For he says, “At the acceptable time I heard you; in the day of salvation I helped you.” [1]

³ We try not to put obstacles in anyone’s path, so that no one can find fault with the work we do.

⁴ On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,

⁵ beatings, imprisonments, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food.

⁶ We commend ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach HaKodesh; by genuineness of love

⁷ and truthfulness of speech; and by God’s power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons, whether for pressing our cause or defending it;

⁸ through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

⁹ unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;

¹⁰ as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!

¹¹ Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you, we have opened our hearts wide.

¹² Any constraint you feel has not been imposed by us, but by your own inner selves.

¹³ So, just to be “fair” (I am using the language of children), open wide your hearts too.

¹⁴ Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness?

¹⁵ What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said, “I will house myself in them, . . . and I will walk among you. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” [2]

¹⁷ Therefore ADONAI says, “‘Go out from their midst; separate yourselves; don’t even touch what is unclean. [3] Then I myself will receive you. [4]

¹⁸ In fact, I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters.’ says ADONAI-Tzva’ot.” [5]