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,
6. by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
7. by the message of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousnesson the right hand and the left,
8. through glory and dishonor,through slander and good report;as deceivers yet true;
9. as unknown yet recognized;as dying and look — we live;as being disciplined yet not killed;
10. as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many;as having nothing yet possessing everything.
11. We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.