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