3. We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so we try not to put obstacles in anyone's way.
4. Instead, in everything we do we show that we are God's servants by patiently enduring troubles, hardships, and difficulties.
5. We have been beaten, imprisoned, and mobbed; we have been overworked and have gone without sleep or food.
6. By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God's servants — by the Holy Spirit, by our true love,
7. by our message of truth, and by the power of God. We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and to defend ourselves.
8. We are honoured and disgraced; we are insulted and praised. We are treated as liars, yet we speak the truth;
9. as unknown, yet we are known by all; as though we were dead, but, as you see, we live on. Although punished, we are not killed;