1. As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2. For he says,‘In the time of my favour I heard you,and in the day of salvation I helped you.’I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation.
3. We put no stumbling-block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.
4. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
5. in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
6. in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
7. in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
8. through glory and dishonour, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
9. known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;