Reading I
2 Cor 6:1-10
And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation.
Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.
But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,
In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,
In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:
By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:
As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.