1We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
2(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):
3Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;
4But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,
5In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;
6In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,
7In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
