2Corinthians:6

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* We (note :)Men do not only need the ministry of the Gospel before they have received grace , in order that they may be partakers of the Gospel , but also after they have received grace they need to continue in it .(:note ) then , [as ] workers together [with him ], beseech [you ] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain . * * * But in all [things ] (note :)Declare and indeed show .(:note ) approving ourselves as the ministers of God , He first of all reckons up those things which are neither always in the ministers , nor without exception , unless they are there according to the minister 's bodily condition . Patience , however , is an exception , which also is one of the virtues which ought to always be in a good minister . in much patience , in afflictions , in necessities , in distresses , * In stripes , in imprisonments , in (note :)In tossing to and fro , finding no place of rest and quietness .(:note ) tumults , in labours , in watchings , in fastings ; * * By the (note :)Preaching of the Gospel .(:note ) word of truth , by the Power to work miracles , and to subdue the wicked . power of God , by the Uprightness . armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left , * By honour , and dishonour , by euill report , and good report , as deceiuers , and yet true : * As vnknowen , and yet knowen : as dying , and beholde , we liue : as chastened , and yet not killed : * As sorowing , and yet always reioycing : as poore , and yet make many riche : as hauing nothing , and yet possessing all things . * * Ye are not (note :)You are in my heart as in a house , and that no narrow or confined house , for I have opened my whole heart to you ; but you are inwardly narrow towards me .(:note ) straitened in us , but ye are straitened in your own After the manner of the Hebrews , he calls those tender affections which rest in the heart , «bowels ». bowels . * Nowe for the same recompence , I speake as to my children , Be you also inlarged . * * And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what (note :)What can there be between them ?(:note ) part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? * And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the (note :)He sets the living God against idols .(:note ) living God ; as God hath said , I will God dwells with us , because Christ has become God with us . dwell in them , and walk in [them ]; and I will be their God , and they shall be my people . * Wherefore come out from among them , and separate your selues , saith the Lord , and touch none vncleane thing , and I wil receiue you . * And I will be a Father vnto you , and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters , saith the Lord almightie .

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