2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ▼

4 Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

5 by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,

6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,

7 by the word of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;

9 as unknown, yet recognized; as dying, yet see—we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;

10 as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.