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4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
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Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love,
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in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
7 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 truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;
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through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
9 as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see—we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed;
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known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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