Verš 1
But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
1Kor 3:9 - For we are God’s assistants. You are God’s cultivation; you are God’s construction.
Heb 12:15 - Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,
Verš 2
For he says: “In a favorable time, I heeded you; and on the day of salvation, I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Iz 49:8 - Thus says the Lord: In a pleasing time, I have heeded you, and in the day of salvation, I have assisted you. And I have preserved you, and I have presented you as a covenant of the people, so that you would lift up the earth, and possess the scattered inheritances,
Verš 3
May we never give offense to anyone, so that our ministry may not be disparaged.
Rim 14:13 - Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray.
1Kor 10:32 - Be without offense toward the Jews, and toward the Gentiles, and toward the Church of God,
Verš 4
But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;
1Kor 4:1 - Accordingly, let man consider us to be ministers of Christ and attendants of the mysteries of God.
2Kor 11:23 - They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.
Verš 9
as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued;
Ž 118:18 - Reveal to my eyes, and I will consider the wonders of your law.
Iz 26:19 - Your dead shall live. My slain will rise again. Be awakened, and give praise, you who live in the dust! For your dew is the dew of the light, and you shall be dragged down to the land of the giants, to ruination.
Verš 13
But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged.
1Kor 4:14 - I am not writing these things in order to confound you, but in order to admonish you, as my dearest sons.
Verš 14
Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?
Dt 7:2 - and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.
1Kor 5:9 - As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,”
1Sam 5:1 - Then the Philistines took the ark of God, and they transported it from the Stone of Assistance into Ashdod.
1Kr 8:21 - And there I have appointed a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he struck with our fathers, when they went forth from the land of Egypt.”
1Kor 10:21 - You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and partakers of the table of demons.
Ef 5:11 - And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.
Verš 16
And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: “I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1Kor 10:7 - And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves.”
1Kor 10:14 - Because of this, most beloved of mine, flee from the worship of idols.
1Kor 3:16 - Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?
1Kor 6:19 - Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
Ef 2:21 - In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord.
Heb 3:6 - Yet truly, Christ is like a Son in his own house. We are that house, if we firmly retain the faithfulness and the glory of hope, even unto the end.
1Pt 2:5 - be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Ex 29:45 - And I will live in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will be their God.
Lv 26:11 - I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out.
Ez 37:26 - And I will strike a covenant of peace with them. This will be an everlasting covenant for them. And I will establish them, and multiply them. And I will set my sanctuary in their midst, unceasingly.
Verš 17
Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.
Iz 52:11 - Depart, depart, get out of here! Do not be willing to touch what is polluted. Go out from her midst! Be cleansed, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
Zjv 18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: “Go away from her, my people, so that you may not be participants in her pleasures, and so that you may not be recipients of her afflictions.
Verš 18
Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
Jer 31:1 - “In that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
