| 1 | Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. |
| 2 | For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. |
| 3 | We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, |
| 4 | but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, |
| 5 | beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger; |
| 6 | by purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, |
| 7 | truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; |
| 8 | in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; |
| 9 | as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; |
| 10 | as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. |