2 Cor 6:1-10

I realized there are many translation of the same verse and chapter. Some in more modern English using more direct, simpler expression. The reading I read today morning used more complicated words, e.g. affectation, salvation, which I personally find makes it harder to grasp the intentions and meaning behind God words.

The search for better understanding of how to express and read out loud the passage leads me to find the simpler and more direct translation first. So to gain a better understanding of the passage's purpose before attempting to practice on the RC version which tends to use more older sentence structure and words.

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Brothers and sisters:
As your fellow workers, we appeal to you
not to receive the grace of God in vain.
For he says:

In an acceptable time I heard you,
and on the day of salvation I helped you.

Behold, now is a very acceptable time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.
We cause no one to stumble in anything,
in order that no fault may be found with our ministry;
on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves
as ministers of God, through much endurance,
in afflictions, hardships, constraints,
beatings, imprisonments, riots,
labors, vigils, fasts;
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness,
in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech,
in the power of God;
with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left;
through glory and dishonor, insult and praise.
We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;
as unrecognized and yet acknowledged;
as dying and behold we live;
as chastised and yet not put to death;
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing;
as poor yet enriching many;
as having nothing and yet possessing all things.