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title: "2 Corinthians 6 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "He exhorts them to a correspondence with God's grace and not to associate… 2 Corinthians 6 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# 2 Corinthians 6

2 Corinthians 6 is chapter 6 of 13 in the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He exhorts them to a correspondence with God's grace and not to associate with unbelievers.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Corinthians 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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.
3. May we never give offense to anyone, so that our ministry may not be disparaged.
4. But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;
5. despite wounds, imprisonment, and rebellion; with hard work, vigilance, and fasting;
6. by chastity, knowledge, and longsuffering; in pleasantness, in the Holy Spirit, and in unfeigned charity;
7. with the Word of truth, with the power of God, and with the armor of justice to the right and to the left;
8. through honor and dishonor, despite good reports and bad, whether seen as deceivers or truth-tellers, whether ignored or acknowledged;
9. as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued;
10. as if sorrowful and yet always rejoicing; as if needy and yet enriching many; as if having nothing and possessing everything.
11. Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians; our heart is enlarged.
12. You are not narrowed by us, but it is by your own inner selves that you are narrowed.
13. But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged.
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?
15. And how can Christ join together with Belial? Or what part do the faithful have with the unfaithful?
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.
17. Because of this, you must depart from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is unclean.
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.”

## 2 Corinthians 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Adjuvantes autem exhortamur ne in vacuum gratiam Dei recipiatis.
2. Ait enim: Tempore accepto exaudivi te, et in die salutis adjuvi te. Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile, ecce nunc dies salutis.
3. Nemini dantes ullam offensionem, ut non vituperetur ministerium nostrum:
4. sed in omnibus exhibeamus nosmetipsos sicut Dei ministros in multa patientia, in tribulationibus, in necessitatibus, in angustiis,
5. in plagis, in carceribus, in seditionibus, in laboribus, in vigiliis, in jejuniis,
6. in castitate, in scientia, in longanimitate, in suavitate, in Spiritu Sancto, in caritate non ficta,
7. in verbo veritatis, in virtute Dei, per arma justitiæ a dextris et a sinistris,
8. per gloriam, et ignobilitatem, per infamiam, et bonam famam: ut seductores, et veraces, sicut qui ignoti, et cogniti:
9. quasi morientes, et ecce vivimus: ut castigati, et non mortificati:
10. quasi tristes, semper autem gaudentes: sicut egentes, multos autem locupletantes: tamquam nihil habentes, et omnia possidentes.
11. Os nostrum patet ad vos, o Corinthii; cor nostrum dilatatum est.
12. Non angustiamini in nobis: angustiamini autem in visceribus vestris:
13. eamdem autem habentes remunerationem, tamquam filiis dico, dilatamini et vos.
14. Nolite jugum ducere cum infidelibus. Quæ enim participatio justitiæ cum iniquitate? aut quæ societas luci ad tenebras?
15. quæ autem conventio Christi ad Belial? aut quæ pars fideli cum infideli?
16. qui autem consensus templo Dei cum idolis? vos enim estis templum Dei vivi, sicut dicit Deus: Quoniam inhabitabo in illis, et inambulabo inter eos, et ero illorum Deus, et ipsi erunt mihi populus.
17. Propter quod exite de medio eorum, et separamini, dicit Dominus, et immundum ne tetigeritis:
18. et ego recipiam vos: et ero vobis in patrem, et vos eritis mihi in filios et filias, dicit Dominus omnipotens.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1041: The Last Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 859: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1695: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2813: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 797: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1179: Where is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 270: The Almighty ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Feb 10, 2027: Ash Wednesday — Second Reading, 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2
- Mon, Feb 15, 2027: Monday of the First Week of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, 2 Corinthians 6:2b
- Sat, Feb 20, 2027: Saturday of the First Week of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, 2 Corinthians 6:2b
- Mon, Jun 14, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).