2 Corinthians 6:4
But, in everything, commending ourselves as God’s ministers,—in much endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in straits,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3Giving, no single, occasion of stumbling, in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings,
Cross References
Joel 1:9Cut off are the meal-offering and the drink-offering, from the house of Yahweh,—In grief are the priests, the attendants on Yahweh:—
Luke 21:19By your endurance, shall ye gain your lives for a possession.
Acts 9:16For, I, will let him understand how many things he must needs, for my name, suffer.
Acts 20:34yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!
Romans 5:8But God commendeth his own love unto us in that—we as yet being sinners, Christ in our behalf died.
Romans 14:18For, he that in this doeth service unto the Christ, is acceptable unto 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 →