OET 2COR chapter 6

Literal Version

6 Since we’re working together, we want to encourage you all not to accept God’s grace wastefully 2 [ref]because he said,

‘I listened to you at the right time,

and I helped you on the day when you were saved.’

Listen, today is the right time to ask. And listen again, today is the right day to get saved.

3 Don’t give anyone a reason to stumble, so that the ministry won’t be tarnished, 4 but as God’s servants we commend ourselves in every way—by great endurance when facing afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 [ref]beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger, 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the holy spirit, genuine love, 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God. Hold the weapons of righteousness in both your right and left hands 8 whether in victory or dishonour, through bad reports and good reports, even if being called fakes (but being genuine). 9 We’re regarded as unknowns despite being well-known, considered to be dying off yet very much alive, being beaten but not yet being killed, 10 regarded as sad but always happy, as poor but making many people rich, as having nothing but possessing everything.

11 We’ve shared our thoughts with you all from Corinth and our hearts have been expanded. 12 You haven’t been restricted by us, but your own compassions restrict you all. 13 In return, you also should be expanded. (Yes, I know it’s like I’m talking to children.)

6 And working _together also, we _are _exhorting not in vain the grace of_ the _god to _receive you _all.
2 For/Because he _is _saying:
In_a_time acceptable I _listened _to from _you, and in the_day of _salvation I _gave _help to _you.
Behold, now is the_time acceptable, see, now is the_day of _salvation.
3 Not _one in nothing giving cause _for _stumbling, in _order _that not may _be _blemished the service.
4 But in everything commending ourselves as of_god servants:
in endurance great, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses, 5 in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the_spirit holy, in love unhypocritical, 7 in the_message of _truth, in the_power of_god, through the weapons of_ the _righteousness of _the right and the_left, 8 through glory and dishonour, through defamation and good _report, as deceivers and _yet true, 9 as being _not _knowing and _yet being _known _fully, as dying _off and _yet see, we _are _living, as being _disciplined and _yet not being _put _to _death, 10 as being _sorrowed but always rejoicing, as poor but many making _rich, as nothing having and _yet all things keeping.
11 The mouth of _us has _opened _up to you _all, Korinthios, the heart of _us has _been _widened.
12 Not you _all _are _being _restricted by us, but you _all _are _being _restricted in the compassions of _you _all.
13 And for _the the_same recompense (as to _children I _am _speaking) be _widened also you _all.

6:14 Don’t be teamed with unbelievers

14 Don’t be teamed together with unbelievers, because how can there be a partnership between obeying and disobeying God, or in other words, how can light socialise with darkness? 15 So what harmony can Messiah have with Satan, or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 [ref]What agreement can God’s temple have with idols, because we are the temple of the living God? As God said,