2 Corinthians 6:3
1 As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2 For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
5 in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
- KJV
- Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
- WEB
- We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
- ASV
- giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
- DARBY
- giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
- BLB
- We are giving no cause of stumbling among [anyone], so that the ministry should not be blamed,
- ÅB
- Og vi gir ikke i noe stykke noe anstøt, for at ikke tjenesten skal bli lastet,
- OTB
- Vi gir ingen grunn til å ta anstøt i noe, slik at tjenesten ikke blir vanæret,
- B1930
- Og vi gir ikke i noget stykke noget anstøt, forat ikke tjenesten skal bli lastet,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 14:13
Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
Read in contextMatthew 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:32–33
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
Read in contextMatthew 17:27
“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:9–13
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:23–24
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
Read in context