⁴ but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

¹⁰ Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.^(A)

²⁷ in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,^[a] cold and naked.^(A)

⁸ We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair,

¹¹ Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.^{(A) 12} I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.^(B)

¹¹ To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,^{(A) 12} and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;^(B)

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ As it is written,

³ And not only that, but we^[a] also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,^{(A) 4} and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

¹² The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, signs and wonders and mighty works.^(A)

⁶ who has made us qualified to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.^(A)