2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ▼

4 on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;

6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love,

7 in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left;

8 through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful;

9 as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;

10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.