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 succored thee:Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offense 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 labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,