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As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
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For he says, "At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!
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We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,
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but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
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beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love,
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truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
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in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
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as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see—we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed;
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.