2. For He says, “At a favorable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3. We give no cause for offense in anything, so that our ministry may not be blamed.
4. But as God’s servants, we are commending ourselves in every way—in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5. in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleeplessness, in hunger;
6. in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Ruach ha-Kodesh, in genuine love,