The Christian's Hardships

"We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, 
so that our ministry will not be discredited.  
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: 
in great endurance; 
in troubles, hardships, and distresses; 
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; 
in hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger; 
in purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; 
in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love, 
in truthful speech and in the power of God; 
with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 
through glory and dishonour, 
bad report and good report; 
genuine, yet regarded as impostures, 
known, yet regarded as unknown; 
dying, and yet we live on; 
beaten, and yet not killed; 
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; 
poor, yet making many rich; 
having nothing, 
and yet possessing everything."

2 Co 6.3-10

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