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Not giving in anything a cause for michshol, lest the Messianic Avodas Kodesh (holy worship, service) be blamed;

But in everything presenting ourselves [2C 4:2] as mesharetim of Hashem in much savlanut (patience), in tzoros, in hardships, in distresses,

In beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in tzomot;

In purity, in da’as, in longsuffering, in chesed, in the Ruach Hakodesh, in ahavah amittit,

In the dvar HaEmes, in the gevurat Hashem, through the weapons of Tzedek of the right hand and of the left.

Through honor and dishonor, through ill repute and good repute; as "deceivers" and yet true,

As being unknown and yet being well known, as dying and hinei, we live! As given the mishpat mavet and yet not penalized with death;

10 As having agmat nefesh but always having simcha, as poor but enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

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