An Inspired Exhortation to the CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
In everything commending ourselves,
As ministers of God,
In much patience, in afflictions,
In necessities, in distresses, in stripes,
In imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,
In watchings, in fastings;
In pureness, in knowledge,
In long-suffering, in kindness,
In the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
In the word of truth, in the power of God;
By the armor of righteousness
On the right hand and on the left,
By glory and dishonor,
By evil report and good report;
As deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown, and yet well known;
As dying, and behold, we live;
As chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
As poor, yet making many rich;
As having nothing,
And yet possessing all things.