1And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
2(for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):
3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,