The Daily Audio Bible

6 So we, therefore, as workers together, encourage you, that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

² For He says, “I have heard you at an acceptable time, and on the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold now the accepted time. Behold now the day of salvation.

³ We cause no one to stumble in anything, that the ministry should not be blamed.

⁴ But in all things, we commend ourselves as the ministers of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

⁵ in stripes, in prisons, in instability, in labors;

⁶ by sleeplessness, by fasting, by purity, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love without hypocrisy;

⁷ by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand, and on the left;

⁸ by honor and dishonor; by evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true;

⁹ as unknown and yet known; as dying and behold, we live; as chastised and yet not killed;

¹⁰ as grieving and yet always rejoicing; as poor and yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

¹¹ O Corinthians, our mouth has been opened to you. Our heart has been made large!

¹² You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained your own inward parts.

¹³ Now, for the same reward, I speak as to my children. You, also, be enlarged.