2 Corinthians 6:1-13

MLV(i) 1 And working together with him, we are also encouraging you to not accept the grace of God in vain; 2 (for he says, ‘I heard you at an acceptable time and I helped you in a day of salvation;' behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation), 3 giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service from us might not be blamed. 4 But we are commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses, 5 in lashes, in prisons, in unrest, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasts; 6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-pretended love, 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness from the right hand and from the left hand, 8 through glory and dishonor, through defamation and good-repute; as misleaders and yet true; 9 as being unrecognized and yet being fully known; as dying and behold, we live; as being disciplined and yet not being slain; 10 as sorrowful, yet even habitually rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet having all things.
11 O Corinthians, our mouth has opened to you, our heart has been widened. 12 You are not distressed by us, but you are distressed by your own affections, 13 but the same as recompense, (I speak to you as to my children). You also, be widened in your heart s.