1 As workers together with God, we ask you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have listened to you,and in the day of salvation I have helped you.”Look, now is the accepted time; look, now is the day of salvation.
3 We give no offense in anything, that our service may not be blamed.
4 But in all things we commend ourselves as servants of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distress,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, and in hunger;