9. We are not known, but we are well-known. We seem to be dying, but look—we continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed.
10. We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people rich in faith. We have nothing, but really we have everything.
11. We have spoken freely to you in Corinth. We have opened our hearts to you.
12. Our feelings of love for you have not stopped. It is you that have stopped your feelings of love for us.
13. I speak to you as if you were my children. Do to us as we have done—open your hearts to us.
14. You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together.
15. How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a non-believer?