3. giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4. but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5. in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6. in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7. in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8. by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
9. as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10. as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11. Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
12. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.
13. Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.