005:019 We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world
to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account,
and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.
005:020 On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were,
making entreaty through our lips: we, on Christ's behalf,
beseech men to be reconciled to God.
005:021 He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us,
in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.
006:001 And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be
found to have received His grace to no purpose.
006:002 For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have succoured you." Now is the time of loving welcome! Now is the day of salvation!
006:003 We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything,
lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.
006:004 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval—
by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
006:005 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil,
by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;
006:006 by purity of life, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness,
by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love;
006:007 by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God;
by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;