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2 Corinthians 6:3–4

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3We zput no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4but aas servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: bby great endurance, cin afflictions, dhardships, calamities,

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  1. zSee 1 Cor. 8:13; 9:12
  2. a[1 Thess. 3:2; 2 Tim. 2:24, 25]; See ch. 3:6
  3. bch. 12:12; 2 Tim. 3:10
  4. cActs 9:16
  5. dch. 12:10

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

We are not giving anyone an occasion for offense, so that the ministry will not be blamed. Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

NLTNew Living Translation

We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry. In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

We are giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found with it, but commending ourselves as servants of God in every way, in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,

KJV 1900King James Version

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,