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;
10. sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
11. We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.