2 Corinthians 6:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

By honour, and dishonour, by euill report, and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true:

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  • Matt 27:63 : 63 And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise.
  • Rom 3:8 : 8 And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 He must also be well reported of, euen of them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke, and the snare of the deuill.
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therefore we labour and are rebuked, because we trust in the liuing God, which is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.
  • Heb 13:13 : 13 Let vs goe foorth to him therefore out of the campe, bearing his reproch.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified.
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius hath good report of al men, and of the trueth it selfe: yea, and wee our selues beare recorde, and ye know that our record is true.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which call themselues Iewes, and are not, but doe lye: beholde, I say, I will make them, that they shall come and worship before thy feete, and shall knowe that I haue loued thee.
  • Matt 5:11-12 : 11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely. 12 Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is ynough for the disciple to bee as his master is, and the seruaunt as his Lorde. If they haue called the master of the house Beel-zebub, howe much more them of his housholde?
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent vnto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we knowe that thou art true, & teachest the way of God truly, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the person of men.
  • Mark 12:14 : 14 And when they came, they saide vnto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou considerest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God truly, Is it lawfull to giue tribute to Cesar, or not?
  • John 7:12 : 12 And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.
  • John 7:17-18 : 17 If any man will doe his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe. 18 Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.
  • Acts 5:13 : 13 And of the other durst no man ioyne him selfe to them: neuerthelesse the people magnified them.
  • Acts 5:40-41 : 40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commaunded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe. 41 So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his Name.
  • Acts 6:3 : 3 Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, and full of the holy Ghost, and of wisedome, which we may appoint to this busines.
  • Acts 10:22 : 22 And they sayd, Cornelius the captaine, a iust man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Iewes, was warned from heauen by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house, and to heare thy wordes.
  • Acts 14:11-20 : 11 Then when the people sawe what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in ye speach of Lycaonia, Gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men. 12 And they called Barnabas, Iupiter: and Paul, Mercurius, because hee was the chiefe speaker. 13 Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought bulles with garlands vnto the gates, & would haue sacrificed with the people. 14 But when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard it, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying, 15 And saying, O men, why doe yee these things? We are euen men subiect to the like passions that yee be, and preache vnto you, that yee shoulde turne from these vaine things vnto the liuing God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all things that in them are: 16 Who in times past suffered all the Gentiles to walke in their owne waies. 17 Neuerthelesse, hee left not him selfe without witnes, in that hee did good and gaue vs raine from heauen, & fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foode, and gladnesse. 18 And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them. 19 Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead. 20 Howbeit, as the disciples stoode rounde about him, hee arose vp, and came into the citie, and the next day hee departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
  • Acts 16:20-22 : 20 And brought them to the gouernours, saying, These men which are Iewes, trouble our citie, 21 And preache ordinances, which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, seeing we are Romanes. 22 The people also rose vp together against them, and the gouernours rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.
  • Acts 16:39 : 39 Then came they and praied them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.
  • Acts 22:12 : 12 And one Ananias a godly man, as perteining to the Lawe, hauing good report of all the Iewes which dwelt there,
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites:
  • Acts 28:4-9 : 4 Nowe when ye Barbarians saw the worme hang on his hand, they said among themselues, This man surely is a murtherer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hath not suffered to liue. 5 But he shooke off the worme into the fire, and felt no harme. 6 Howbeit they wayted whe he should haue swolne, or fallen downe dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and sawe no inconuenience come to him, they changed their mindes, and said, That he was a God. 7 In the same quarters, the chiefe man of the Yle (whose name was Publius) had possessions: the same receiued vs, and lodged vs three dayes courteously. 8 And so it was, that the father of Publius lay sicke of the feauer, and of a bloodie flixe: to whom Paul entred in, and when he prayed, he laide his hands on him, and healed him. 9 When this then was done, other also in the Yle, which had diseases, came to him, and were healed, 10 Which also did vs great honour: and when we departed, they laded vs with things necessarie.
  • Acts 28:22 : 22 But we will heare of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoken against.

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