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2 Corinthians 6 - Easy-To-Read Version (ERV)

September 21
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6 1We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don't let the grace (kindness)
that you received from God be for nothing. 2God says, "I heard you at the right
time, and I gave you help on the day of salvation." (Isaiah 49:8) I tell you that
the "right time" is now. The "day of salvation" is now. 3We don't want people to
find anything wrong with our work. So we do nothing that will be a problem to other
people. 4But in every way we show that we are servants of God: in accepting many
hard things, in troubles, in difficulties, and in great problems. 5We are beaten
and thrown into prison. People become upset and fight us. We work hard, and sometimes
we get no sleep or food. 6[We show that we are servants of God] by our understanding,
by our patience, by our kindness, and by living pure. [We show this] by the Holy
Spirit,* by true love, 7by speaking the truth, and by God's power. We use our right
living to defend ourselves against everything. 8Some people honor us, but other
people shame us. Some people say good things about us, but other people say bad
things. Some people say we are liars, but we speak the truth. 9To some people we
are not known (not important), but we are well known. We seem to be dying, but
look! We continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed. 10We have much
sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people
rich [in faith]. We have nothing, but really we have everything.

11We have spoken freely to you people in Corinth. We have opened our hearts to you.
12Our feelings of love for you have not stopped. It is you that have stopped your
feelings of love for us. 13I speak to you like you are my children. Do the same
as we have done--open your hearts also.
Warning About Non-Christians

14You are not the same as those people who don't believe. So don't join yourselves
to them. Good and bad don't belong together. Light and darkness cannot have fellowship
(sharing). 15How can Christ and Belial (the devil) have any agreement? What can
a believer have together with a non-believer? 16God's temple* cannot have any agreement
with idols.* And we are the temple of the living God. Like God said: "I will live
with them and walk with them, I will be their God, and they will be my people."
(Leviticus 26:11-12) 17"So come away from those people and separate yourselves from
them, says the Lord. Touch nothing that is not clean, and I will accept you." (Isaiah
52:11) 18"I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the
Lord All-Powerful." (2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8)

Footnotes: Spirit, Holy Spirit Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ,
and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, he does God's work among people in
the world. God's temple The place where people worship and serve God. Here it means
a Christian's body. idols False gods made from wood or stone and worshiped by the
non-Jewish people.
"Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: EASY-TO-READ VERSION © 2001 by World Bible Translation
Center, Inc. and used by permission."
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