2 Corinthians 6:4
But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the ministers of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses,
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
5in scourgings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting;
Cross References
Luke 21:19And by your patience, will ye preserve your souls.
Acts 9:16For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.
Acts 20:34And ye yourselves, know, that these hands ministered to my wants, and to them that were with me.
Romans 5:8God hath here manifested his love towards us. Because, if when we were sinners, Messiah died for us;
Romans 14:18For he who is in these things a servant of Messiah, is pleasing to God, and approved before 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 →