1 Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
2 for he says,“At an acceptable time I listened to you,in a day of salvation I helped you.”Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;