1. We then, as co-workers with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3. Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4. But in all things approving 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 long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,
7. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8. By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9. As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11. O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
12. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13. Now for a recompense in the same (I speak as to my children,) be ye also enlarged.