1 Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 For he says:“In an acceptable time I heard you,and on the day of salvation I helped you.”Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
3 We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry;
4 on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,
5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;
6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love,
7 in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left;