2 Corinthians 6:1-13 - Afflictions Of God's Servants
1 And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain 2 (for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);
3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministry be not blamed; 4 but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings; 6 in pureness, 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 righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 through glory and dishonor, through 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 always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
11 Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians! our heart has been enlarged! 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. 13 Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged.