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Some people respect us and some do not. Some give us a good name and some a bad name. Some people say we fool people and yet we tell the truth.

Many people do not know us, and yet many people know us very well. We almost die and yet we live. People give us much trouble but they do not kill us. We are very sad and yet always glad.

10 We are poor, but we make many people rich. We have nothing, but really we have everything.

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through glory and dishonor,(A) bad report(B) and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;(C) known, yet regarded as unknown; dying,(D) and yet we live on;(E) beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;(F) poor, yet making many rich;(G) having nothing,(H) and yet possessing everything.(I)

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