2 Corinthians 6:1
Good News Translation
In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God's grace not to let it be wasted.

New Revised Standard Version
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Contemporary English Version
We work together with God, and we beg you to make good use of God's gift of undeserved grace.

New American Bible
Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

workers.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

beseech.

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Galatians 4:11,12 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. . . .

ye.

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

Galatians 3:4 Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

Hebrews 12:15,25 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled: . . .

the.

2 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath been given in the churches of Macedonia. . . .

Acts 14:3 A long time therefore they abode there, dealing confidently in the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:

1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Context
Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
1And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain. 2For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

Acts 11:23
Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

2 Corinthians 5:20
For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

Hebrews 4:1
Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

Hebrews 12:15
Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled:

2 Corinthians 5:21
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