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We entreat
you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake
he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.
As we work together with him, we urge
you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he
says,
"At an acceptable time I have listened
to you,
and on a day of salvation I have helped you."
See,
now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!
We are putting no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault
may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we
have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance,
in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments,
riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge,
patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful
speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness
for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor,
in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors,
and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as
dying, and see-- we are alive; as punished, and yet not
killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet
making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing
everything.
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