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 labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6. in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Ghost, in love unfeigned,
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 chastened, and not killed;
10. as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11. Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.