ACV(i)
1 And working jointly, we urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain
2 (for he says, At an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Behold, now is an acceptable time. Behold, now is a day of salvation),
3 giving not one cause of stumbling in anything, so that the ministry may not be criticized,
4 but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,
6 in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,
7 in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left,
8 through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true;
9 as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;
10 as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but 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 enlarged.
12 Ye are not limited in us, but ye are limited in your bowels.
13 But I speak the same recompense as to children, be ye also enlarged.