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,
5 in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry,
6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love without hypocrisy,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and left hand,
8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and good repute, regarded as deceivers and yet truthful,