But I observed that, although I was such a great sinner before conversion, God never burdened me heavily with the guilt of sins committed while I was in ignorance. He only showed me that I was lost if I did not have Christ because I had been a sinner. I saw that I needed a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was nowhere to be found but in the person of Jesus Christ.
John Bunyan

Bible – English_World – 2 Corinthians Chapter 6:1-18.

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2 Corinthians 6

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6:1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

6:2 for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

6:3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

6:4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

6:6 in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

6:7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

6:8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

6:9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

6:11 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

6:12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

6:13 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

6:14 Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?

6:15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

6:16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

6:17 Therefore, “‘Come out from among them, And be separate,’ says the Lord, ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

6:18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”