2 Corinthians 6:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry 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 this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
• 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
• Matt 17:27 : 27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
• Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
• 1 Cor 10:23-24 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
• 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: 33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 2 Cor 8:20 : 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
• 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.