006:008 through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise.
We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;
006:009 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death,
and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline,
and yet we are not deprived of life;
006:010 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow
wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely
possess all things.
006:011 O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you:
our heart is expanded.
006:012 There is no narrowness in our love to you: the narrowness
is in your own feelings.
006:013 And in just requital—I speak as to my children—let your
hearts expand also.
006:014 Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
006:015 Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found? Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever?
006:016 And what compact has the Temple of God with idols? For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said, "I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; and will be their God, and it is they who shall be My people."
006:017 Therefore, "`Come out from among them and separate yourselves,' says the Lord, `and touch nothing impure; and I will receive you, and will be a Father to you,