2. (for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):
3. giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4. but in everything commending ourselves, as 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. in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7. in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8. by glory 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;