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2 Corinthians 6:1

GraceServing others
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:

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BSB
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
KJV
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
WEB
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
ASV
And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
DARBY
But [as] fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:
BLB
And working together, we also exhort you⁺ not to receive the grace of God in vain.
ÅB
Men som medarbeidere formaner vi dere også at dere ikke forgjeves må ta imot Guds nåde.
OTB
Og mens vi arbeider sammen med Ham, oppmuntrer vi dere også til ikke å motta Guds nåde til ingen nytte—
B1930
Men som medarbeidere formaner vi eder også at I ikke forgjeves må ta imot Guds nåde.

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Cross references

  • Hebrews 12:15

    Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:9

    For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

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  • 1 Peter 4:10

    As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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  • Galatians 2:21

    I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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  • 2 Corinthians 5:18–20

    And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

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  • Romans 12:1

    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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  • Galatians 4:11–12

    I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

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  • Hebrews 12:25

    See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

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