1. As we work together with him, we also urge you not to receive the Chen v'Chesed Hashem in vain. [2C 5:20]
2. For he says "In a time acceptable I heard you and in a day of salvation I helped you" [YESHAYAH 49:8]. Hinei, now is the acceptable time; now is the Yom Yeshu'ah, [Ps 69:13; Isa 55:6; Lk.4:19-21]
3. Not giving in anything a cause for michshol, lest the Messianic Avodas Kodesh (holy worship, service) be blamed;
4. But in everything presenting ourselves [2C 4:2] as mesharetim of Hashem in much savlanut (patience), in tzoros, in hardships, in distresses,
5. In beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in tzomot;
6. In purity, in da'as, in longsuffering, in chesed, in the Ruach Hakodesh, in ahavah amittit,
7. In the dvar HaEmes, in the gevurat Hashem, through the weapons of Tzedek of the right hand and of the left.
8. Through honor and dishonor, through ill repute and good repute; as "deceivers" and yet true,