2 Corinthians 6:4
but as God's ministers, commending ourselves in everything, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
3giving no cause of offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
Cross References
Luke 21:19In your patience possess your souls[21:19].
Acts 9:16for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Acts 20:34Ye yourselves know, that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.
Romans 5:8But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 14:18For he that in these things serves Christ, is well pleasing to God, and approved by men.
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 →