2 Corinthians 6:4

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,”

— ASV

Cross-references

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2 Corinthians 12:10 "Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am we…"
2 Corinthians 4:8 "We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;"
2 Corinthians 11:27 "in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness."
1 Corinthians 4:11-12 "Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place."
Romans 8:35-36 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
Romans 5:3-4 "Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;"
Philippians 4:11-12 "Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it."
1 Corinthians 3:5 "Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?"

Commentary

Translate, to mark the true order of the Greek words, "in everything, as God's ministers recommending ourselves," that is, that our hearers may give our message a favorable hearing, through our consistency in every respect, not that they may glorify us. Alluding to Co2 3:1, he implies, We commend ourselves, not like them by word, but by deed. patience-- (Co2 12:12). Put first. "Pure-minded" follows (Co2 6:6). Three triplets of trials exercising the "patience" (patient endurance) follow: Afflictions (or "tribulations"), necessities, distresses (or "straits"); stripes, imprisonments, tumults; labors, watchings, fastings. The first triplet expresses afflictions generally; the second, those in particular arising from the violence of men; the third, those which he brought on himself directly or indirectly.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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