1: We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2: (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

3: Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

4: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

5: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

6: By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

7: By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

8: By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

9: As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

10: As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

11: O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

12: Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

13: Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.