2 Corinthians 6:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)1 As workers together with God we urge you also, who have received God’s unearned favor, do not allow it to be for nothing, Ver CapítuloMás versionesKing James Version (Oxford) 17691 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. Ver CapítuloAmplified Bible - Classic Edition1 LABORING TOGETHER [as God's fellow workers] with Him then, we beg of you not to receive the grace of God in vain [that merciful kindness by which God exerts His holy influence on souls and turns them to Christ, keeping and strengthening them–do not receive it to no purpose]. Ver CapítuloAmerican Standard Version (1901)1 And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain Ver CapítuloCommon English Bible1 Since we work together with him, we are also begging you not to receive the grace of God in vain. Ver CapítuloCatholic Public Domain Version1 But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain. Ver Capítulo |
Pay careful attention so that you do not refuse [to hear] God when He speaks to you. [See verse 9]. For if those people [i.e., the Israelites] did not escape [judgment] when they refused [to hear] Him who warned them on earth [i.e., God speaking through Moses at Mount Sinai], how much less [likely] will we escape [judgment] if we reject Him who warns from heaven [i.e., Christ]?
So, as long as God’s promise of entering into a state of rest with Him [still] remains, we should fear that someone among you will appear [in the end] to have fallen short of [attaining] it. [Note: In this section “entering into rest” refers to Israel entering Canaan (verses 6, 8) and to Christians entering heaven (verses 3, 9) . The “Sabbath day rest” is presented as a type of both].