1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says,
3 Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,