1. And working together also we call upon [you] that ye receive not in vain the grace of God--
2. for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now [is] a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --
3. in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
4. but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,
5. in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,