1. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2. (For he says,
3. Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed:
4. But in all things presenting ourselves as the 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. By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,