2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God’s minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited;
5by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;
Cross References
Luke 21:19"In your patience you shall purchase your souls.
Acts 9:16"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 20:34"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.
Romans 5:8But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 14:18Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.
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 →