Bible verse

2 Corinthians 6:4

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

2 Corinthians 6:4 · BSB

2 Corinthians 6:4 in context

The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 6.

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!

3 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;

6 in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

8 through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

Read all of 2 Corinthians 6

2 Corinthians 6:4 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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