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- And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain--
- for He says, "AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU, AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU." Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME," behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION"--
- giving no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited,
- but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
- in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
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- We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
- Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
- But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
- In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
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- in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
- in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,
- by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and yet true;
- as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,
- as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
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- By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
- By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
- By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
- As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
- As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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- Our mouth has spoken freely to you, O Corinthians, our heart is opened wide.
- You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.
- Now in a like exchange--I speak as to children--open wide to us also.
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- O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
- Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
- Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
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