Na Now Be Di Day of Salvation
Paul show wetin prove say na true apostle im be, and na beating, prison, night wey no sleep, and people wey dey spoil im name. Den e drop the argument, e just dey beg: im heart open wide, but dia own close. E beg dem make dem comot from idol matter and live as Papa im own sons and daughters.
6 1As we be im co-workers, we dey beg una make una no collect our Papa grace for nothing.
2For im talk say, "For di right time I hear you; for di day of salvation I helep you." Look am, na now be di right time; look am, na now be di day of salvation.
3We no dey put anything for anybody road wey go make dem trip, so dat nobody go fit find fault with our ministry. 4Instead, for everything we dey show sey we be servants of our Papa: with plenty patience, for suffer-suffer, for hard-hard times, for wahala wey dey squeeze belle, 5for beating, for prison, for riot, for hard work, for night wey we no sleep, for hunger; 6by clean heart, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by di Holy Spirit, by true-true love, 7by talk wey be truth, by our Papa power, with correct-and-holy way as weapon for right hand and left hand, 8through honour and shame, through bad-mouth and praise. Dem dey treat us like liar people, but still we dey talk true; 9like people wey dem no know, but dem know us well well; like people wey dey die, but look am, we dey alive; like people wey dem dey punish, but dem no kill us; 10like people wey dey grieve, but we dey always full of joy; like poor people, but we dey make plenty people rich; like people wey no get anything, but we get everything.
11We don talk to una free-free, una Corinth people; our heart open wide give una. 12Na no be us dey hold una back, na for una own heart una dey hold uma-self back. 13As una own return—I dey talk to una as my pikin dem—make una too open una heart wide.
Come Home to di Papa Family
14No join body with people wey no believe. For wetin correct-and-holy way and lawlessness get to share together? Abi wetin light and darkness get to do together? 15Wetin Christ and di devil get in common? Wetin person wey believe fit share with person wey no believe?
16Wetin our Papa temple get to do with idol? For we be di temple of di Papa wey dey alive, as im talk sey: "I go live among dem and waka among dem; I go be dem Papa, and dem go be my pikin dem." 17Na why, "Comot from among dem and separate yourself, na so our Papa talk, and no touch any unclean thing; den I go welcome una, 18and I go be Papa to una, and una go be my sons and daughters, na so our Papa talk, di Almighty One." a a v18 Di promise wey our Papa bin make give David royal pikin, na im im open here give every person wey believe — im dey become Papa to everybody wey come to am, and we dey become im sons and daughters.
