1 Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”
2 For He says:I heard you in an acceptable time,and I helped you in the day of salvation. Look, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.
3 We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed.
4 But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:by great endurance, by afflictions,by hardship, by difficulties,
5 by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors,by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
7 by the message of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousnesson the right hand and the left,