2 Corinthians 6:4
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!
3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
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;
6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
- KJV
- But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
- WEB
- but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
- ASV
- but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
- DARBY
- but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
- BLB
- but in everything we are commending ourselves as God’s servants: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses;
- ÅB
- men viser oss i alt som Guds tjenere: ved stort tålmod i trengsler, i nød, i angst,
- OTB
- Men i alle ting viser vi oss som Guds tjenere, med mye utholdenhet, i trengsler, i vanskeligheter, i nød,
- B1930
- men viser oss i alt som Guds tjenere: ved stort tålmod i trengsler, i nød, i angst,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:8
We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:11–12
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
Read in contextRomans 8:35–36
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Read in contextRomans 5:3–4
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
Read in contextPhilippians 4:11–12
I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances.
Read in contextRevelation 3:10
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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