2 Corinthians 4:5
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 20:25But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the rulers of the Gentiles act as lords over them, and their great men have authority over them.
Luke 22:25And he said to them: The kings of the nations have dominion over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.
John 3:27John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.
John 13:14If, then, I, your Lord and your Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Acts 3:12But when Peter saw it, he answered the people: Men of Israel, why are you astonished at this? or, why do you look so earnestly on us, as if by our own power or godliness we had caused this man to walk?
Acts 8:9But there was a certain man, named Simon, who had, before this time, been practicing magic in the city, and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying that he was some great one;
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:2-8
Constancy and Sincerity of the Apostles; The Apostle's Integrity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which… Read the whole commentary →