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2 Corinthians 6:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,

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It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing,

through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

You had all the miracles that mark an apostle done for you fully and patiently — miracles, wonders, and deeds of power.

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.

And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;

So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

However, women will get safely through childbirth if they continue to be faithful and loving and holy as well as unassuming.

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

then, amid all my own distress and trouble, I was cheered — this faith of yours encouraged me.

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this! ), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?

Salute that tried Christian, Apelles. Salute those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

you know yourselves how these hands of mine provided everything for my own needs and for my companions.

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know),

Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)




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