4 On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval–by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;5 by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;6 by purity of life, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love;7 by the proclamation of the truth, by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness, wielded in both hands;8 through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise. We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;9 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life;10 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things.