2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10

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²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.^{(A) 21} For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(B)

6 As we work together with him,^[a] we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.^{(C) 2} For he says,

Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!^{(D) 3} We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,^{(E) 4} but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities, ⁵ beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;^{(F) 6} in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, ⁷ truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;^{(G) 8} in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true, ⁹ as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,^{(H) 10} as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.