19)as that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not
reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the
word of reconciliation.

(20)We are then ambassadors on behalf of Christ[5:20], as though God
were beseeching by us; on behalf of Christ we pray: Be reconciled to
God! (21)Him who knew not sin he made to be sin for us, that we might
become God's righteousness in him.

VI.

AND, as workers together with him, we also beseech you that ye receive
not the grace of God in vain; (2)(for he says:

In an accepted time I heard thee,
And in the day of salvation I helped thee;

behold, now is the well accepted time, behold, now is the day of
salvation;) (3)giving no cause of offense in anything, that the
ministry be not blamed; (4)but as God's ministers, commending
ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, (5)in stripes, in imprisonments, in
tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; (6)in pureness, in
knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love
unfeigned, (7)in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor
of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, (8)through glory
and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and
true; (9)as unknown, and 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 possessing all
things.

(11)O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
(12)Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own
bowels. (13)Now as a recompense in the same kind (I speak as to my
children), be ye also enlarged.

(14)Be not yoked unequally with unbelievers; for what fellowship has
righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with
darkness? (15)And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part
has a believer with an unbeliever? (16)And what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God; as
God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be to me a people.

(17)Wherefore, come out from among them, and be separated, saith the
Lord, and touch not anything unclean; and I will receive you, (18)and
will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.

VII.

HAVING therefore these prom