2 Corinthians 4:5
For it is not ourselves that we preach, but the Messiah, Jesus our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Jesus' sake.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 20:25And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know that the princes of the nations are their lords, and their great men exercise authority over them.
Luke 22:25And Jesus said to them: The kings of the nations, are their lords; and those exercising authority over them, are called benefactors.
John 3:27John answered, and said to them: A man cannot take any thing by his own choice, unless it be given him from heaven.
John 13:14If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another?
Acts 3:12And when Simon saw it, he answered and said to them: Men, sons of Israel, why do ye wonder at this? or why do ye gaze on us, as if by our own power or authority we had made this man to walk?
Acts 8:9And there was a certain man there, whose name was Simon, who had resided in that city a long time, and who seduced the people of the Samaritans by his sorceries, magnifying himself, and saying, I am a great personage.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:2-8
Constancy and Sincerity of the Apostles; The Apostle's Integrity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which… Read the whole commentary →