1 Since we are co-laboring, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2 For He says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3 We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our ministry may not be blamed.
4 But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleeplessness, in hunger;
6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Ruach ha-Kodesh, in genuine love,
7 in truthful speech, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;