WNT(i)
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;
6 by purity of life, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love;
7 by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;
8 through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise. We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;
9 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life;
10 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things.