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The Conduct of God's Ministers
2 Corinthians 6:3-10
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We try not to put obstacles in anyone’s path, so that no one can find fault with the work we do.
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On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,
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beatings, imprisonments, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food.
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We commend ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach HaKodesh; by genuineness of love
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and truthfulness of speech; and by God’s power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons, whether for pressing our cause or defending it;
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through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,
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unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;
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as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!
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