2 Corinthians 6:4

On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

In Context

3We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

5by floggings, by imprisonments; by facing riots, by toil, by sleepless watching, by hunger and thirst;

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Cross References

Luke 21:19By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

Acts 9:16For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."

Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided for my own necessities and for the people with me.

Romans 5:8But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 14:18and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes pleasure in him, and men highly commend him.

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 →

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