2 Corinthians 6:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

but in all thinges let vs behaue oure selues as the mynisters of God: in moch pacience, in troubles, in necessities, in anguysshes,

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  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Paul? What is Apollo? Eue mynisters are they, by whom ye are come to the beleue, and the same, acordinge as the LORDE hath geuen vnto euery man.
  • 2 Cor 4:8 : 8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat.
  • 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.
  • 2 Cor 12:12 : 12 yet are ye tokens of an Apostle wrought amoge you, with all paciece, with signes, & with woders & with mightie dedes.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.
  • Phil 4:11-12 : 11 I speake not this because of necessite: for I haue lerned in what soeuer estate I am, therwith to be contete 12 I can be lowe, and I ca be hye. Euery where and in all thinges I am mete, both to be full, and to be hongrie: to haue plentye, and to suffre nede.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 & to be strengthed wt all power acordinge to the mighte of his glory, to all pacience and longsufferynge with ioyfulnes,
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now ioye I in my sufferynges, which I suffre for you, and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodyes sake, which is the congregacion,
  • 1 Thess 2:3-9 : 3 For oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure ner yet to vnclennes, nether was it with gyle: 4 but as we are alowed of God, that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache, euen so we speake, not as though we wolde please me, but God, which tryeth oure hertes. 5 For we haue not gone aboute with flateringe wordes (as ye knowe) ner wayted for oure owne profit ( God is recorde) 6 nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ, 7 but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children, 8 euen so had we hartely affeccion towarde you, and wolde with good wyl haue dealte vnto you, not onely the Gospell of God, but oure lyues also, because ye were deare vnto vs. 9 Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle. For daye and nighte wroughte we (because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you) and preached the Gospell of God amonge you. 10 Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaued oure selues amoge you that beleue: 11 as ye knowe, how that as a father his children, euen so exhorted we and comforted and besoughte euery one of you,
  • 1 Thess 3:2-3 : 2 & sent Timotheus oure brother and mynister of God, and oure helper in ye gospell of Christ, to stablysh you and to comforte you in youre faith, 3 that noman shulde be moued in these troubles: (for ye youre selues knowe, that we are euen appoynted there vnto.
  • 1 Thess 3:7 : 7 therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 We desyre you brethre, warne them that are vnruly, coforte the feble mynded, forbeare the weake, be pacient towarde all men.
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 Notwitstondynge thorow bearynge of children she shalbe saued, yf she contynue in faith and in loue & in the sanctifyenge with discrecion.
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thinges, thou shalt be a good mynister of Iesu Christ, which hast bene norished vp in the wordes of faith and of good doctryne, which thou hast folowed hither to.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou man of God, flye soche thinges: folowe righteousnes, godlynes, faith, loue, pacience, mekenes:
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not thou asshamed therfore of ye testimony of or LORDE, nether of me, which am his presoner: but suffre thou aduersite also wt the Gospell, acordinge to the power of God
  • 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 The seruaunt of the LORDE ought not to stryue, but to be gentle vnto euery man: apte to teach, one that can forbeare
  • 2 Tim 3:10-12 : 10 But thou hast sene the experience of my doctryne, my fasshion of lyuynge, my purpose, my faith, my longsufferynge, my loue, my pacience, 11 my persecucions, my affliccions, which happened vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecucions I suffred paciently, and from the all the LORDE delyuered me. 12 Yee and all they that wil lyue godly in Christ Iesu, must suffre persecucion.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all thinges, suffre aduersite, do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell, fulfyll thine office vnto the vttemost.
  • Heb 12:1 : 1 Wherfore seynge we haue so greate a multitude of witnesses aboute vs let vs also laye awaye all yt presseth downe, and the synne that hangeth on, and let vs runne with pacience vnto the batayl that is set before vs,
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be pacient therfore brethren, vnto the comynge of the LORDE. Beholde, the hussbade man wayteth for the precious frute of ye earth, and hath longe pacience there vpon, vntill he receaue the erly and the latter rayne. 8 Be ye also pacient therfore, and settle youre hertes, for the commynge of the LORDE draweth nye. 9 Grodge not one agaynst another brethren, lest ye be damned. Beholde, the iudge stondeth before the dore. 10 Take (my brethren) the prophetes for an ensample of sufferynge aduersitie, and of longe pacience, which spake in the name of the LORDE.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I Ihon youre brother and copanyon in tribulacion, and in the kyngdome and paciece which is in Iesu Christe, was in the yle of Pathmos for the worde of God, and for ye witnessynge of Iesu Christe.
  • Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the wordes of my pacience, therfore wil I kepe the from the houre of temptacion, which will come vpon all the worlde, to tempte them that dwell vpo the earth.
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye
  • 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 Beholde, where as ye haue had godly sorowe, what diligence hath it wrought in you? Yee a sufficiet answere, displeasure, feare, desyre, a feruet mynde, punyshment. For in all poyntes ye haue shewed youre selues, that ye are cleare in that matter.
  • 2 Cor 11:9 : 9 And whan I was present with you, and had nede, I was greuous to no man: for yt which was lackynge vnto me, the brethren which came fro Macedonia, suppleed. And in all thinges I kepte myselfe so, yt I shulde not be greuous to you, & so wyl I kepe my selfe.
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:
  • 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let euery man this wyse esteme vs, euen for the mynisters of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, 12 and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it:
  • 1 Cor 9:11 : 11 Yf we haue sowne vnto you spiritual thinges, is it a greate thige yf we reape yor bodely thiges?
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as many are, which choppe & chaunge wt the worde of God, but eue out of purenesse, and out of God, in ye sighte of God, so speake we in Christ.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But ye shalbe named the prestes of the LORDE, & me shall call you the seruautes of oure God. Ye shall enioye the goodes of ye Getiles & tryuphe in their substauce.
  • Joel 1:9 : 9 For the meate & drynkofferynge shalbe taken awaye from the house of the LORDE: & the prestes ye LORDES ministers shal mourne.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the prestes serue the LORDE betwixte the porch & ye aulter, wepinge & sayenge: be fauourable (o LORDE) be fauourable vnto thy people: let not thine heretage be brought to soch confucion, lest the Heithen be lordes therof. Wherfore shulde they saye amonge the Heithen: where is now their God?
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 Holde fast youre soules with pacience.
  • Acts 2:22 : 22 Ye men of Israel, heare these wordes: Iesus of Nazareth, ye man approued of God amonge you with miracles, and wonders and tokens, which God dyd by him in the myddes amonge you, as ye yor selues knowe also,
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 I wil shewe him, how greate thinges he must suffre for my names sake.
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 but yt the holy goost witnesseth in euery cite, and sayeth, that bondes and troubles abyde me there. 24 But I regarde none of them, nether counte I my life dearer then my selfe, that I maye fulfyll my course with ioye, and the office yt I haue receaued of the LORDE Iesu, to testifye the Gospell of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:34 : 34 For ye youre selues knowe, that these handes haue mynistred vnto my necessities, and them that were with me.
  • Rom 5:3-4 : 3 Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece, 4 paciece bryngeth experiece, experiece bryngeth hope:
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 Therfore doth God set forth his loue towarde vs, in yt Christ dyed for vs,whan we were yet synners:
  • Rom 8:35-36 : 35 Who will separate vs from the loue of God? Trouble? or anguysh? or persecucio? or honger? or nakednesse? or parell? or swerde? 36 As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 He that in these thinges serueth Christ, pleaseth God, & is comended of me.
  • Rom 16:10 : 10 Salute Apelles approued in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobolus housholde.

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    5 in strypes, in presonmentes, in vproures, in laboures, in watchinges, in fastynges,

    6 in purenesse, in knowlege, in longe sufferynge, in kyndnesse, in the holy goost, in loue vnfayned,

    7 in the worde of the trueth, in the power of God, by the armoure of righteousnes on the rightehande and on the lefte,

    8 by honoure and dishonoure, by euell reporte and good reporte: as disceauers, & yet true:

    9 as vnknowne, and yet knowne: as dyenge, and beholde, we lyue: as chastened, and not kylled:

    10 as sorowynge, and yet allwaye mery: as poore, & yet make many riche: as hauynge nothinge, & yet possessynge all thinges.

  • 3 Let vs geue no man occasion of euell, that oure office be not euell spoken of:

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    4 so that we oure selues make oure boast of you (in the congregacions of God) of youre paciece and faith in all youre persecucions and troubles that ye suffre,

    5 which is a token of the righteous iudgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdome of God, for the which ye also suffre.

    6 For it is a righteous thinge with God, to recopence tribulacion vnto the yt trouble you:

  • 5 But watch thou in all thinges, suffre aduersite, do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell, fulfyll thine office vnto the vttemost.

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    10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed.

    11 Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place,

    12 and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it:

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    4 which comforteth vs in all oure trouble: in so moch yt we are able to comforte them that are in eny maner of trouble, with the same comforte wher with we oure selues are comforted of God.

    5 For as the affliccios of Christ are plenteous in vs, euen so is or cosolacion plenteous by Christ.

    6 But whether we haue trouble or comforte, it is done for youre welth. Yf it be trouble, it is done for youre coforte and health, which health sheweth hir power, in that ye suffre the same affliccions which we suffre. Yf it be comforte, it is done also for youre comforte and health.

  • 2 Cor 4:1-2
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    1 Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not,

    2 but cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, and walke not in craftines: nether corruppe we the worde of God but open the trueth, and reporte oure selues to euery mans conscyence in the sighte of God.

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    7 But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs.

    8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat.

    9 We are persecuted, but we are not forsaken. We are oppressed, neuertheles we perish not.

  • 27 in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:

  • 4 but as we are alowed of God, that the Gospell shulde be commytted vnto vs to preache, euen so we speake, not as though we wolde please me, but God, which tryeth oure hertes.

  • 3 Not onely yt, but we reioyse also i troubles, for so moch as we knowe, yt trouble bryngeth paciece,

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    1 Let euery man this wyse esteme vs, euen for the mynisters of Christ, and stewardes of the secretes of God.

    2 Now is there no more requyred of the stewardes, then, that they be founde faithfull.

  • 12 yet are ye tokens of an Apostle wrought amoge you, with all paciece, with signes, & with woders & with mightie dedes.

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    3 that noman shulde be moued in these troubles: (for ye youre selues knowe, that we are euen appoynted there vnto.

    4 And whan we were with you, we tolde you before, that we shulde suffre tribulacion, euen as it is come to passe, & as ye knowe.)

  • 6 And ye became the folowers of vs and of the LORDE: and receaued the worde in moch affliccion with ioye of the holy goost:

  • 8 Brethren we wolde not haue you ignoraunt of oure trouble, which happened vnto vs in Asia, for we were greued out off measure passynge strength, so that we euen dispared of life,

  • 10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.

  • 2 but as we had suffred afore, & were shamefully intreated at Philippos (as ye knowe) we were bolde in oure God, to speake vnto you ye Gospel of God with moch stryuynge.

  • 7 therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith.

  • 6 nether soughte we prayse of men, nether of you ner of eny other, whan we mighte haue bene chargeable vnto you as the Apostles off Christ,

  • 4 and prayed vs with greate instauce, that we wolde receaue their benefite and fellishippe of the hadreachinge that is done for the sayntes:

  • 6 in the which ye shal reioyse, though now for a litle season (yff nede requyre) ye are in heuynes thorow manyfolde temptacions:

  • 20 and to bewarre, lest eny ma reporte euell of vs because of this plenteousnes, which is mynistred by vs:

  • 4 I am very bolde towarde you, I make moch boost of you, I am fylled with comforte, I am exceadynge ioyous in all oure tribulacion.

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    8 nether toke we bred of eny man for naughte but wrought wt laboure and trauayle night and daye, lest we shulde be chargeable to eny of you.

    9 Not but that we had auctorite, but to geue oure selues for an ensample vnto you to folowe vs.

  • 24 The seruaunt of the LORDE ought not to stryue, but to be gentle vnto euery man: apte to teach, one that can forbeare

  • 2 Preach thou the worde, be feruent, be it in season or out of season: Improue, rebuke, exhorte with all longe sufferynge and doctryne.

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    6 not with seruyce onely in the eye sighte, as men pleasers: but as the seruauntes off Christ, doynge the wyll off God from the hert

    7 with good wyll. Thynke that ye serue the LORDE and not me:

  • 17 For oure trouble, which is but temporall and lighte, worketh an exceadinge and an eternall weighte of glorye

  • 11 my persecucions, my affliccions, which happened vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecucions I suffred paciently, and from the all the LORDE delyuered me.

  • 7 Aboue all thinge shewe thy selfe an ensample off good workes, with vncorrupte doctryne, with honestye, with the wholsome

  • 23 They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft.