2 Corinthians 6:3

giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

In Context

2(for he says, I have listened to thee in an accepted time, and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now [is the] well-accepted time; behold, now [the] day of salvation:)

4but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

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Cross References

Matthew 18:6But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.

1 Corinthians 8:9But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 9:22I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

1 Corinthians 10:32Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

2 Corinthians 8:20avoiding this, that any one should blame us in this abundance [which is] administered by us;

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 →

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