First Reading2 Corinthians 6:1-10
From the Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
1Working together, we entreat alsothat you do not receive the grace of God in vain.2For 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.3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything,that our service may not be blamed,4but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God:in great endurance,in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,5in beatings, in imprisonments,in riots, in labors,in watchings, in fastings,6in pureness, in knowledge,in perseverance, in kindness,in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,7in the word of truth,in the power of God,by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,8by glory and dishonor,by evil report and good report,as deceivers and yet true,9as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,10as sorrowful yet always rejoicing,as poor yet making many rich,as having nothing and yet possessing all things.