The Conduct of God's Ministers

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We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

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Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

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in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

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in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

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in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

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through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

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as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.