2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as so many, who peddle the word of God: but as men of sincerity, as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

In Context

16To the one we are the aroma of death to death; and to the other the aroma of life to life. And who is equal to such a calling?

Read all of 2 Corinthians 2

Cross References

Acts 20:20How I kept back nothing that was profitable for you, but have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the hidden, shameful things, and do not walk in craftiness, nor handle the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 1:19Holding on to faith and a good conscience; which some have rejected and so shipwrecked their faith:

2 Timothy 2:6The farmer who labours must be first to partake of the fruits.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 2:13-17

Effects of the Christian Ministry. ( a. d. 57.) 12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Corinthians 2:17