1. As workers together with God, we ask you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2. For He says: “In an acceptable time I have listened to you,and in the day of salvation I have helped you.”Look, now is the accepted time; look, now is the day of salvation.
3. We give no offense in anything, that our service may not be blamed.
4. But in all things we commend ourselves as servants of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distress,
5. in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, and in hunger;
6. by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,
7. by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,