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But [as] fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:
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(for he says, I have listened to thee in an accepted time, and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now [is the] well-accepted time; behold, now [the] day of salvation:)
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giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
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but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
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in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
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[a].
See 1Cor. 3.9. Here literally 'jointly labouring;' the connection is in the word 'beseech.'