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

¹ And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain. ² (For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

³ Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed: ⁴ But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, ⁵ In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings; ⁶ In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned. ⁷ In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left, ⁸ Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true; ⁹ As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed; ¹⁰ As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹¹ Our month stands open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged. ¹² Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels. ¹³ And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged.