2 Corinthians 6:1-13 - Afflictions Of God's Servants

¹ We then, as workers together with him, exhort you also that ye have not received the grace of God in vain. ² (For he saith, I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of saving health I have succoured thee; behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of saving health.)

³ Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry not be blamed, ⁴ But in all things showing ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, ⁶ in chastity, in knowledge, in meekness, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned charity, ⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, ⁸ through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet as men of the truth; ⁹ as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, but, behold, we live; as chastened, but not killed; ¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always 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 recompense in the same (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.