2 Corinthians 6:1-5 ▼

1 And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

2 For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have succoured you." Now is the time of loving welcome! Now is the day of salvation!

3 We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

4 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

5 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;