The Conduct of God's Ministers

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giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

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but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

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in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

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as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

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