1 Now working together we also exhort you not to accept the favor of Yahweh to no purpose.2 (For He says, "In an acceptable time I have listened to you, and in a day of deliverance I have come to help you." Behold, the present time is well acceptable. Behold, the present day is of deliverance.)3 Not one by any means giving offense, in order that fault would not be found with the service;4 rather in everything engaging ourselves as servants of Yahweh; with much endurance in tribulations, in constraints, in difficulties,5 in calamities, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors; with wakefulness, with fastings,6 with purity, with knowledge, with patience, with kindness, with the Holy Spirit, in love without acting,7 in the word of truth, in the power of Yahweh; through the arms of justice on the right and left;8 through honor and dishonor; through bad words and good words, as are deceptions and truths;9 as if being ignorant, and discovering; as if being slain, and behold, we live; as if being disciplined, and not being condemned;10 as if being grieved, but always rejoicing; as beggars, but being much enriched; as having nothing, and possessing all.11 Our mouths have been opened to you, Korinthians, our hearts enlarged.12 You are not straitened by us, but you are straitened in your affections.13 Now for that same reward, (as if to children I speak,) you also be enlarged.14 Do not become yoked together with untrustworthy aliens; for what participation has justice and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light towards darkness?15 And what accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what share the faithful with the faithless?16 And what agreement has a temple of Yahweh with idols? For you are a temple of the living Yahweh; just as Yahweh has said, "I will dwell among them, and I will walk about; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."17 On which account "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Prince, and "do not be joined to the impure, and I will admit you".18 "And I will be to you for a father, and you will be mine for sons and daughters, says the almighty Prince."