1. Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”
2. For He says:I heard you in an acceptable time,and I helped you in the day of salvation. Look, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.
3. We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed.
4. But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:by great endurance, by afflictions,by hardship, by difficulties,
5. by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors,by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,