For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?

And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

But now also finish the doing of it, so that, as there was a readiness to will, so also the finishing, giving out of what you have.

For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what one does not have.

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.

For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as being beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;

For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.