2 Corinthians 6:4
No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God’s assistants should – in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,
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3Never do we put an obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
5in floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in hunger;
Cross References
Joel 1:9Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.
Luke 21:19By your endurance you will win yourselves life.
Acts 9:16I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my name.”
Acts 20:34You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also.
Romans 5:8But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
Romans 14:18The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
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 →