2 Corinthians 6:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:13 : 13 no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.
  • Matt 17:27 : 27 but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
  • 1 Cor 10:23-24 : 23 All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up; 24 let no one seek his own -- but each another's.
  • 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God; 33 as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
  • 2 Cor 8:20 : 20 avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,
  • 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm, 10 for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols, 11 and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died? 12 and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin; 13 wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

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  • 1 Cor 10:31-33
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    31Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

    32become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

    33as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.

  • 2 Cor 6:4
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    4but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

    21providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

  • 1 Thess 2:3-6
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    3for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

  • Titus 2:7-10
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    7concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

    8discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

    10not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • 2 Cor 4:1-2
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    1Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

    2but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

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    2of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

  • Eph 6:6-7
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    6not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

    7with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

  • Phil 1:10
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    10for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 2 Cor 7:2
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    2receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

  • Phil 2:15
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    15that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

  • Matt 11:6
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    6and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'

  • John 16:1
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    1`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

  • 1 Tim 6:14
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    14that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Rom 14:13
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    13no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16in the `places' beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

  • Titus 1:7
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    7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

  • 2 Cor 13:7
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    7and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

  • 1 Tim 6:1
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    1As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

  • 1 Tim 5:7
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    7and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

  • 1 Pet 3:16
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    16having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • Jas 3:2
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    2for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one `is' a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.

    21Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

  • 2 Cor 6:8
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    8through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

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    16and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
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    12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7or ministration -- `In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!'

  • 2 Cor 11:7
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    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?