1. And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
2. (for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succour thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):
3. giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4. but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5. in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6. in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Ghost, in love unfeigned,
7. in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,