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,
5. in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6. in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
7. in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8. by glory and dishonour, 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 punished, and not killed;