2Cor 6. 1-10 «As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you,and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation. We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything». Apostle Paul, sending one of the letters to the Corinthians, makes an amazing emphasis on his ministry, and, instructing the Corinthians, mentions his own merits and those of his fellow workers, so that "you not to receive God’s grace in vain». This is the amazing freedom of apostle Paul, with which he lists his merits. And among them, one of the merits is that, as he says, "We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited". Apostle Paul is certainly not defending himself. Here he is defending the Lord Himself, because he is fulfilling His ministry.