Paul's manner of life and preaching.

¹⁾We then, as workers together with Christ, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

²⁾(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

³⁾Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;

⁴⁾But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

⁵⁾In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

⁶⁾By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

⁷⁾By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

⁸⁾By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

⁹⁾As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

¹⁰⁾As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

¹¹⁾O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

¹²⁾Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

¹³⁾Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

¹⁴⁾Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

¹⁵⁾And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

¹⁶⁾And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁷⁾Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye the separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

¹⁸⁾And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.