Be honest and frank anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do it today anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest pride. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for the underdogs anyway. What you spent years building may be destroyed over- night. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. The proper exercise of our faith and gifts in the body of Christ cannot be attained apart from an other-oriented love. Perhaps that's why Paul follows his exhortation in vv 4-8.