4 but in every way I am striving to commend myself as Gods minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,5 by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;6 with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,7 by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense,8 amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;9 as unknown and yet well known; as at deaths door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed;10 as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.