1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
2for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, In a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
7in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
