2 Corinthians 6:1-13
6:1 As we work together with
him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
6:2 For he
says, "At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I
have helped you." See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of
salvation!
6:3 We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no
fault may be found with our ministry,
6:4 but as servants of God we have
commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions,
hardships, calamities,
6:5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors,
sleepless nights, hunger;
6:6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness,
holiness of spirit, genuine love,
6:7 truthful speech, and the power of
God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the
left;
6:8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are
treated as impostors, and yet are true;
6:9 as unknown, and yet are well
known; as dying, and see--we are alive; as punished, and yet not
killed;
6:10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
6:11 We have
spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you.
6:12
There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours.
6:13 In
return--I speak as to children--open wide your hearts also.
Mark 4:35-41
4:35 On that
day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other
side."
4:36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the
boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him.
4:37 A great windstorm
arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being
swamped.
4:38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they
woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are
perishing?"
4:39 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
"Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm.
4:40
He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"
4:41 And
they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that
even the wind and the sea obey him?"
