2 Corinthians 4:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEREFORE, SINCE we do hold and engage in this ministry by the mercy of God [granting us favor, benefits, opportunities, and especially salvation], we do not get discouraged (spiritless and despondent with fear) or become faint with weariness and exhaustion.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

Common English Bible

¹ This is why we don’t get discouraged, given that we received this ministry in the same way that we received God’s mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Therefore, since we have this ministry, and in as much as we have obtained mercy for ourselves, we are not inadequate.

2 Corinthians 4:1 Križne Reference

Isaiah 40:30

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

Isaiah 40:31

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, ‘Woe is me! for the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’

Luke 18:1

And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

1 Corinthians 7:25

Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

2 Corinthians 3:12

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:16

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.

Ephesians 3:13

So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in him who strengthens me.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.

1 Timothy 1:13

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were no people but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.

Revelation 2:3

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.