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On the day of salvation I helped you." Listen, now is God's acceptable time! Now is the day of salvation!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We don't give people any opportunity to find fault with how we serve. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Instead, our lives demonstrate that we are God's servants. We have endured many things: suffering, distress, anxiety, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>beatings, imprisonments, riots, hard work, sleepless nights, and lack of food. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>[People can see] our purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit's presence [in our lives], our sincere love, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>truthfulness, and the presence of God's power. We demonstrate that we are God's servants <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>as we are praised and dishonored, as we are slandered and honored, and as we use what is right to attack what is wrong and to defend the truth. We are treated as dishonest although we are honest, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>as unknown although we are well-known, as dying although, as you see, we go on living. We are punished, but we are not killed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>People think we are sad although we're always glad, that we're beggars although we make many people spiritually rich, that we have nothing although we possess everything.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>We have been very open in speaking to you Corinthians. We have a place for you in our hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>We haven't cut you off. Your own emotions have cut you off [from us]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I'm talking to you as I would talk to children. Treat us the same way we've treated you. Make a place for us in your hearts too.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an unbeliever?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Can God's temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, "I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The Lord says, "Get away from unbelievers. Separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with anything unclean. Then I will welcome you." </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Lord Almighty says, "I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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