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;
8. through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;
9. as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;
10. as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
11. We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.
12. You are not constrained by us; you are constrained by your own affections.