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,
006:018 and you shall be My sons and daughters,' says the Lord
the Ruler of all."
007:001 Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us
purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit,
and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
007:002 Make room for us in your hearts. There is not one of you
whom we have wronged, not one to whom we have done harm,
not one over whom we have gained any selfish advantage.
007:003 I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said,
you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you
or live with you.