11. Friends in Corinth, we are telling the truth when we say that there is room in our hearts for you.
12. We are not holding back on our love for you, but you are holding back on your love for us.
13. I speak to you as I would speak to my own children. Please make room in your hearts for us.
14. Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?
15. Is Christ a friend of Satan? Can people who follow the Lord have anything in common with those who don't?
16. Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says,“I will live with these peopleand walk among them.I will be their God,and they will bemy people.”
17. The Lord also says,“Leave them and stay away!Don't touch anythingthat isn't clean.Then I will welcome you
18. and be your Father.You will be my sonsand my daughters,as surely as I am God,the All-Powerful.”