2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ▼

4 But as God's servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,

7 by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;

9 as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet--see!--we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;

10 as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.