2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves, as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in straits, in difficulties,
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, in order that the ministry may not be blamed;
5in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors, in vigils, in fastings;
Cross References
Luke 21:19In your patience gain your souls.
Acts 9:16for I will show him how many things it behooves him to suffer for my name's sake.
Acts 20:34you yourselves know, that these hands did minister to my necessities, and those along with me.
Romans 5:8And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 14:18For in this the one serving Christ is acceptable to God, and approved unto 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 →