2 Corinthians 4:1
ON this account we have not weariness in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that are upon us.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
In Context
Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:6who hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.
2 Corinthians 4:16For this cause we have not weariness; for if our outward man is wasted, yet the interior man is renovated day by day.
Galatians 6:9And while we do that which is good, let it not weary us; for the time will be when we shall reap, and it will not weary us.
Ephesians 3:13WHEREFORE I pray that I may not weary in my affliction, which is on your account,
2 Thessalonians 3:13But you, my brethren, be not weary in doing what is good.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:1
In this chapter we have an account, I. Of the constancy of the apostle and his fellow-labourers in their work. Their constancy in declared ( ver. 1 ), their sincerity is vouched ( ver. 2 ), an objection is obviated ( ver. 3, 4 ), and their integrity proved, ver. 5-7 . II. Of their courage and patience under their sufferings. Where see what their sufferings were, together with their allays ( ver. 8-12 ), and what it was that kept them from sinking and fainting under them, ver. 13, to the end . Read the whole commentary →