Key Verse Spotlight
2 Corinthians 6:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:”
2 Corinthians 6:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
We then, {as} workers together {with him}, beseech {you} also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
(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.)
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
But in all {things} approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, {approving: Gr. commending}
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro}
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