2 Corinthians 6:4

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But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;

Cross References

Isaiah 61:6

But you yourselves will be called the priests of the Lord. It will be said to you, "You are the ministers of our God." You will eat from the strength of the Gentiles, and you will pride yourself on their glory.

Joel 1:9

Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.

Joel 2:17

Between the vestibule and the altar, the priests, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, and they will say: "Spare, O Lord, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?' "

Luke 21:19

By your patience, you shall possess your souls.

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world."

Acts 2:22

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene is a man confirmed by God among you through the miracles and wonders and signs that God accomplished through him in your midst, just as you also know.

Acts 20:34

as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided.

Acts 9:16

For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name."

Romans 14:18

For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men.

Romans 16:10

Greet Apelles, who has been tested in Christ.

Romans 3:5

But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

1 Corinthians 3:5

We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Accordingly, let man consider us to be ministers of Christ and attendants of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 9:11

If we have sown spiritual things in you, is it important if we harvest from your worldly things?

2 Corinthians 11:23

They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.

2 Corinthians 11:27

with hardships and difficulties, with much vigilance, in hunger and thirst, with frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness,

2 Corinthians 11:9

And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Because of this, I am pleased in my infirmity: in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am powerful.

2 Corinthians 12:12

And the seal of my Apostleship has been set over you, with all patience, with signs and wonders and miracles.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:6

And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For though our tribulation is, at the present time, brief and light, it accomplishes in us the weight of a sublime eternal glory, beyond measure.

2 Corinthians 4:2

For we renounce dishonorable and hidden acts, not walking by craftiness, nor by adulterating the Word of God. Instead, by the manifestation of truth, we commend ourselves to the conscience of each man before God.

2 Corinthians 4:8

In all things, we endure tribulation, yet we are not in anguish. We are constrained, yet we are not destitute.

2 Corinthians 7:11

So consider this same idea, being sorrowful according to God, and what great solicitude it accomplishes in you: including protection, and indignation, and fear, and desire, and zeal, and vindication. In all things, you have shown yourselves to be uncorrupted by this sorrow.

Colossians 1:11

being strengthened in every virtue, in accord with the power of his glory, with all patience and longsuffering, with joy,

Colossians 1:24

For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.

1 Thessalonians 3:7

As a result, we were consoled in you, brothers, in the midst of all our difficulties and tribulations, through your faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we ask you, brothers: correct the disruptive, console the weak-minded, support the sick, be patient with everyone.

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet she will be saved by bearing children, if she has continued in faith and love, and in sanctification accompanied by self-restraint.

1 Timothy 4:6

By proposing these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished by words of faith, and by the good doctrine that you have secured.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and truly pursue justice, piety, faith, charity, patience, meekness.

2 Timothy 1:8

And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,

2 Timothy 2:24

For the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but instead he must be meek toward everyone, teachable, patient,

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, truly, be vigilant, laboring in all things. Do the work of an Evangelist, fulfilling your ministry. Show self-restraint.

Hebrews 12:1

Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother, and a sharer in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in patient endurance for Christ Jesus, was on the island which is called Patmos, because of the Word of God and the testimony to Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Since you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall overcome the whole world in order to test those living upon the earth.