1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. |
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) |
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: |
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, |
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; |
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, |
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, |
8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; |
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; |
10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
