2 Corinthians 6:5
despite wounds, imprisonment, and rebellion; with hard work, vigilance, and fasting;
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 22:27And tell them: ‘Thus says the king: Put this man in prison, and sustain him with the bread of affliction, and with the water of distress, until I return in peace.’”
Isaiah 53:5But he himself was wounded because of our iniquities. He was bruised because of our wickedness. The discipline of our peace was upon him. And by his wounds, we are healed.
Jeremiah 37:15And so Jeremiah went into the house of the prison and into a dungeon. And Jeremiah sat there for many days.
Ezekiel 3:17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. And so, you shall listen to the word from my mouth, and you shall announce it to them from me.
Matthew 14:3For Herod had apprehended John, and bound him, and put him in prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother.
Mark 13:34It is like a man who, setting out on a sojourn, left behind his house, and gave his servants authority over every work, and instructed the doorkeeper to stand watch.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 6:2-11
Ministry of the Apostles. ( a. d. 57.) 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5… Read the whole commentary →