2 Corinthians 6:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδεμίαν ἐν μηδενὶ διδόντες προσκοπήν, ἵνα μὴ μωμηθῇ ἡ διακονία:

Transliteration

No one in nothing didontes proskopēn, hina not mōmēthē the diakonia:

Grammar Details

• *didontes*: present participle, nominative, plural, masculine - giving
• *proskopēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - offense/stumbling block
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *mōmēthē*: aorist subjunctive, passive, 3rd person singular - might be blamed/discredited
• *diakonia*: nominative, feminine, singular - ministry/service

Word Meanings

• *didontes*: giving/providing/causing/placing
• *proskopēn*: offense/stumbling block/hindrance/obstacle
• *mōmēthē*: be blamed/be discredited/be found fault with
• *diakonia*: ministry/service/administration

Referenced Verses

• Rom 14:13 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
• Matt 17:27 : 27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a shekel: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
• Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became {G5613} weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• 1 Cor 10:23-24 : 23 All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things edify. 24 Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good].
• 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 2 Cor 8:20 : 20 Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:
• 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat {G1519} things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through thy knowledge {G622} he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning {G3779} against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat {G3756} no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.