2 Corinthians 6:4
Instead, we prove ourselves by all our actions, that we are God's servants. We are his servants in much endurance, affliction, distress, hardship,
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5beatings, imprisonments, riots, in hard work, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
Cross References
Joel 1:9The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from Yahweh's house. 1 The priests, Yahweh's servants, mourn. 1
Luke 21:19In your endurance you will gain your souls.
Acts 9:16for I will show him how much he must suffer for the cause of my name.”
Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands served my own needs and the needs of those who were with me.
Romans 5:8But God proves his own love toward us, because while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 14:18For the one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by people.
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 →