3. We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed.
4. But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:by great endurance, by afflictions,by hardship, by difficulties,
5. by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors,by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
6. by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
7. by the message of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousnesson the right hand and the left,
8. through glory and dishonor,through slander and good report;as deceivers yet true;