2 Corinthians 6:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But in all thynges let vs behaue our selues as ye ministers of God, in much pacience, in afflictions, in necessities, in anguisshes,

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  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Paul? what is Apollo? Only ministers are they by whom ye beleued, euen as the Lorde gaue to euery man.
  • 2 Cor 4:8 : 8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somewhat.
  • 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong.
  • 2 Cor 12:12 : 12 Truely the signes of an Apostle were wrought among you, in all patience, and signes, and wonders, and myghtie deedes.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Which hath made vs able ministers of the newe testament, not of the letter, but of the spirite: For the letter kylleth, but the spirite geueth lyfe.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie, and walke not in craftynesse, neither handle we the word of God disceitefully, but in openyng of the trueth, and report our selues to euery mans conscience in the syght of God.
  • Phil 4:11-12 : 11 I speake not because of necessitie. For I haue learned, in whatsoeuer estate I am, therwith to be content. 12 I knowe howe to be lowe, and I knowe howe to exceade. Euery where & in all thynges I am instructed, both to be ful, and to be hungry, both to haue plentie, and to suffer neede.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 Strenthened with all might, through his glorious power, vnto all patience and long sufferyng with ioyfulnesse:
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Nowe iowe I in my sufferynges for you, and fulfyll that which is behynde of the passions of Christe, in my fleshe, for his bodyes sake, which is ye Church:
  • 1 Thess 2:3-9 : 3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, neither of vncleannes, neither in guile: 4 But as it were alowed of God, to be put in credite with the Gospell: euen so we speake, not as pleasyng men, but God, which tryeth our heartes. 5 For neither at any tyme vsed we flatteryng wordes, as ye knowe, neither cloke of couetousnes, God is recorde, 6 Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor yet of others: 7 When we myght haue ben in auctoritie, as the Apostles of Christe, but we were tender among you, euen as a nource cherissheth her chyldren, 8 So, beyng tenderly affected towarde you, our good wyll was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospell of God only: but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 For ye remember brethren, our labour and trauayle. For we labouryng nyght & day, because we woulde not be chargeable vnto any of you, preached vnto you the Gospell of God. 10 Ye are witnesses, & God also howe holyly, and iustly, and vnblameably, we behaued our selues among you that beleue. 11 As ye knowe, howe that as a father his chyldren, so we haue exhorted, comforted, and besought euery one of you,
  • 1 Thess 3:2-3 : 2 And sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God, and felowe labourer in the Gospell of Christe, to stablishe you & to comfort you concernyng your faith. 3 That no man shoulde be moued in these afflictions: For ye your selues knowe, that we are appoynted therevnto.
  • 1 Thess 3:7 : 7 Therefore brethren we were comforted ouer you, in all our aduersitie and necessitie, because of your fayth.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 We exhort you brethren, warne them that are vnruly, comfort the feeble mynded, lyft vp the weake, be pacient towarde all men.
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 Notwithstandyng through bearyng of chyldren she shalbe saued, yf they continue in fayth and loue, and holynesse, with modestie.
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 Yf thou put the brethren in remembraunce of these thynges, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, which hast ben norysshed vp in the wordes of fayth and of good doctrine, which thou hast continually folowed.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou O man of God, flee these thynges, and folow after righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not thou therfore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lorde, neither of me his prisoner: but suffer thou aduersitie with the Gospell, accordyng to the power of God,
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 And the seruaunt of the Lorde must not striue: but be gentle vnto all men, apt to teache, sufferyng euyll in mekenesse,
  • 2 Tim 3:10-12 : 10 But thou hast folowed my doctrine, fashion of lyuyng, purpose, fayth, long sufferyng, loue, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecutions I suffred patiently: And from them all, the Lord deliuered me. 12 Yea, and all that wyll lyue godly in Christe Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watche thou in all thynges, suffer afflictions, do the worke of an Euangelist, fulfyll thy ministerie:
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Wherfore, seyng that we are compassed with so great a cloude of witnesses, lay away all that presseth downe, & the sinne that hangeth so fast on, let vs run with patience vnto the battayle that is set before vs:
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be patient therfore brethren, vnto the commyng of the Lorde. Beholde, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience thervpon, vntill he receaue the early and the later rayne. 8 Be ye also patient therfore, and settle your heartes, for the commyng of the Lorde draweth nye. 9 Grudge not one agaynst another brethren, lest ye be dampned: Beholde, the iudge standeth before the doore. 10 Take my brethren, the prophetes for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of patience, which spake in the name of the Lorde.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I Iohn, your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christe, was in the Ile that is called Pathmos, for ye worde of God, and for the witnessyng of Iesus Christe.
  • Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the wordes of my patience, therfore I wyll kepe thee from the houre of temptation, which wyll come vpon all the worlde, to trie them that dwel vpon the earth.
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our exceedyng tribulation which is momentanie & lyght, prepareth an exceedyng and an eternall wayght of glorie vnto vs.
  • 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 For beholde this thing, what carefulnesse this godly sorow that ye toke, hath wrought in you: yea what clearing of your selues, yea what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehemet desire, yea what zeale, yea what punishment. For in all thynges ye haue shewed your selues that ye were cleare in ye matter.
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And when I was present with you, and had nede, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lackyng vnto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied, and in all thynges I haue kept my selfe so that I shoulde not be chargeable to any man, and so wyll I kepe my selfe.
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 They are the ministers of Christe, (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant, in stripes aboue measure, in pryson more plenteouslie, in death oft.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,
  • 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let a man so esteeme of vs, as the ministers of Christe, and disposers of the secretes of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it.
  • 1 Cor 9:11 : 11 If we haue sowen vnto you spirituall thinges, is it a great thing if we reape your carnall thinges?
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many are, whiche chop & chaunge with the word of God: but as of purenesse of God, in the syght of God, so speake we in Christe.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But ye shalbe named the priestes of the Lorde, and men shall call you the seruauntes of our God: ye shall enioy the goodes of the gentiles, and triumph in their substaunce.
  • Joel 1:9 : 9 The meate offeryng and drinke offeryng is cut of from the house of the Lorde, the priestes I meane the Lordes ministers mourne.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche & the aulter, and let them say, Spare thy people O Lord, and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche, that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them: Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen, Where is their God?
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 Possesse ye your soule by patience.
  • Acts 2:22 : 22 Ye men of Israel, heare these wordes: Iesus of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you, with miracles, wonders, and signes, which God dyd by hym in the middes of you, as ye your selues also knowe.
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I wyl shew hym how great thinges he must suffer for my names sake.
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 But that the holy ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying that bondes & trouble abyde me. 24 But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 Yea, ye your selues knowe, that these handes haue ministred vnto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • Rom 5:3-4 : 3 Not that only: but also we reioyce in tribulations, knowyng that tribulation worketh pacience: 4 Pacience profe, profe hope:
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God setteth out his loue towarde vs, seyng that whyle we were yet sinners, Christe dyed for vs.
  • Rom 8:35-36 : 35 Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God? Shall tribulation or anguishe, or persecution, either hunger, either nakednesse, either peryll, either sworde? 36 As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye long, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that in these thynges serueth Christe, pleaseth God, and is comended of men.
  • Rom 16:10 : 10 Salute Appelles approued in Christe, salute them whiche are of Aristobulus housholde.

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