2. For he says, “I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!
3. We do not give anyone an occasion for taking an offense in anything, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
4. But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,
5. in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
6. by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,