MODERN LITERAL VERSION

6:1 And working together with him, we also encourage you * that you* do not accept the grace of God in vain;
6:2 (for* he says, ‘I heard you at an acceptable time and I helped you in a day of salvation;' {Is. 49:8} behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation),
6:3 giving no one a stumbling block in anything, that* our service might not be blamed.
6:4 But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses,
6:5 in lashes, in prisons, in unrest, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts;
6:6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love* without hypocrisy,
6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapon of righteousness, from the right and from the left,
6:8 through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good-repute; as misleaders and yet true;
6:9 as being ignorant and yet fully know; as dying and behold, we live; as disciplined and yet not put to death;
6:10 as sorrowful, yet even habitually rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet having all things.

6:11 Our mouth is open to you*, O Corinthians, our heart is widened.
6:12 You* are not distressed by us, but you* are distressed by your* own affections,
6:13 but the same as recompense, (I speak to you as to my children). You* also, be widened in your * heart s.

6:14 Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for* what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
6:15 And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
6:16 And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For* you* are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.'
6:17 Hence ‘Come out from the midst of them and be separate*,' says the Lord, ‘And touch no unclean thing, and I will accept you*
6:18 and will be a Father to you* and you* will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.' {Lev. 26:11-12; 2Sam. 7:7, 14; Is. 52:11; Jer. 32:38, 51:45; Ezek. 20:34, 41, 37:27; Amos 4:13}