2 Corinthians 6:3-10

Paul’s Hardships

3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. 

4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: 

in great endurance; 

in troubles, 

hardships and distresses;

5 in beatings, 

imprisonments and riots;

 in hard work,

sleepless nights and hunger;

 6 in purity, understanding,

 patience and kindness;

 in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God;

 with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

8 through glory and dishonor,

 bad report and good report;

 genuine, yet regarded as impostors;

 9 known, yet regarded as unknown;

 dying, and yet we live on;

 beaten, and yet not killed;

 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;

 poor, yet making many rich;

 having nothing, and yet possessing everything.