Key Verse Spotlight
2 Corinthians 6:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro}”
2 Corinthians 6:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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}
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
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