1 Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 For he says, “At the acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation!
3 We are giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found with it,
4 but commending ourselves as servants of God in every way, in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,