2 Corinthiens 6.9
New International Version

¹ As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
² For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.
³ We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
⁴ Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
⁵ in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
⁶ in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
⁷ in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
⁸ through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
⁹ known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
¹⁰ sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Appel à la sainteté

¹¹ We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.
¹² We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.
¹³ As a fair exchange — I speak as to my children — open wide your hearts also.
¹⁴ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
¹⁵ What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”

¹⁷ Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”

¹⁸ And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”