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We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

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For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

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We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.

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But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,

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in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;

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by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

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by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

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

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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.