1. Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
2. for he says,“At an acceptable time I listened to you,in a day of salvation I helped you.”Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3. We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
4. but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,