Gary Hampton Commentaries
2 Corinthians 6:8
Verse 8 He had been honored by converts and dishonored by Jews and Judaizers. Each side gave a different account of him. Some thought of him as a fraud, but God knew he was a faithful servant.
Verse 8 He had been honored by converts and dishonored by Jews and Judaizers. Each side gave a different account of him. Some thought of him as a fraud, but God knew he was a faithful servant.
Verse 2 Corinthians 6:8. _BY HONOUR AND DISHONOUR_] By going through both; sometimes respected, sometimes despised. _BY EVIL REPORT AND GOOD REPORT_] Sometimes praised, at other times calumniated. _...
BY HONOR AND DISHONOR - The apostle is still illustrating the proposition that he and his fellow-laborers endeavored to give no offence 2 Corinthians 6:3, and to commend themselves as the ministers of...
7. THE EXAMPLE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL; HIS TESTINGS AND TRIALS. CHAPTER 6:1-13 He beseeches the Corinthians as coworkers, in view of the ministry of reconciliation, not to receive this grace of God in v...
2 Corinthians 5:20 to 2 Corinthians 6:10. Paul proceeds to expound and apply the relationship between himself and his converts based upon this ministry. He acts in Christ's stead when he beseeches men...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
We do our work, trying to put an obstacle in no man's way, for we do not wish the ministry to become a laughing stock for critics. But in everything we try to keep on commending ourselves as ministers...
HONOUR. glory. Greek. _doxa._ See p. 1611. DISHONOUR. shame. Greek. _atimia_. See Romans 1:26. EVIL REPORT. Greek. _dusphemia._ Only here. GOOD REPORT. Greek. _euphemia._ Only here. DECEIVERS. Gree...
_by honour and dishonour_ The preposition is here changed in the original, and _not_in our version. It means either _by means of_, or _by endurance of_, both of which senses are given by our English _...
ΔΙᾺ ΔΌΞΗΣ ΚΑῚ�. _By_ GLORY _and dishonour_. The δόξα comes from God and His true servants, as when the Galatians treated him as an ἄγγελος θεοῦ (Galatians 4:14): the ἀτιμία (2 Corinthians 11:21;...
1–10. S. Paul continues his personal explanations respecting his work. These personal explanations are specially prominent in 2 Corinthians 6:3-4, about which 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 give details as to t...
_CONDUCT THAT BRINGS GLORY TO GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 6:6-10:_ The statements in these verses show what Paul had done to have God's approval as a faithful minister of Christ. Paul lived a holy life. He cons...
ΑΤΙΜΊΑ (G819) несчастье, бесчестие, ΔΥΣΦΗΜΊΑ (G1426) хула, дурной отзыв, ΕΎΦΗΜΊΑ (G2162) хвала, добрый отзыв, ΠΛΆΝΟΣ (G4108) обманщик....
DISCOURSE: 2025 THE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN MINISTER 2 Corinthians 6:4. In all things approving ourselves at the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Blameless Ministry Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 6:1-10. And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain 2 for he saith, At an accept...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 2 In Actions (2 Corinthians 6:3-13) 3We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4but as servants of God we commend ourselves in...
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 'Through glory and dishonour'-namely, from those in authority-accruing to us present; 'through evil report and goo...
16 Paul had been proclaiming the kingdom, with Christ and the nation which is related to Him by physical ties at its head. Entrance into that kingdom was by a birth from above. But now the figure of b...
I, 2. PARAPHRASE. 'Now it is as coöperators with God in this work that we exhort you not to make the grace of God fruitless in your life by continuing in sin. (2) For God has told us in Scripture of a...
PARAPHRASE. 'We avoid all conduct which might bring reproach upon our ministry; (4) and try, on the contrary, to commend ourselves by acting as true ministers of God. (5) This is our aim in all the tr...
AS DECEIVERS] probably refers to the charges of his opponents....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 V1 As people who work with God, we ask you this again and again. ‘Do not receive God’s kindness in such a way that it d...
BY HONOUR AND DISHONOUR. — The enumeration of the elements in and by which his ministry is carried on begins to take a more personal character. We trace once more in the words that follow the sensitiv...
CHAPTER 17 THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE. 2 Corinthians 6:1 (R.V) THE ministry of the Gospel is a ministry of reconciliation; the preacher of the Gospel is primarily an evangelist. He has to proclaim that...
(_ b_) διὰ δόξης καὶ ἀτιμίας, διὰ δυσφημίας καὶ εὐφημίας : _by glory_ (_cf._ John 5:41) _and dishonour, by evil report and good report_. To misrepresentation and slander St. Paul was much exposed, and...
THE CONDITIONS AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS APOSTOLIC MINISTRY. We have in this noble description of his service a characteristic outburst of impassioned eloquence on a topic in which the Apostle fe...
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 2 Corinthians 5:20; 2 Corinthians 6:1 On God's side the work of reconciliation is complete. Everything has been done and is in readiness to make forgiveness and justifying righ...
The injunction, "We intreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain," harmonizes in method with many others used by Paul. Let your conduct harmonize with your position in grace. With what po...
The apostles maintained the character, and fulfilled the duties of the ministers of Christ, equally in prosperity and adversity; they continued to speak the truth, though regarded by the Jews as seduc...
(3) Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed: (4) But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,...
8._By honor and dishonor _This is no slight test for subjecting a man to trial, for to a man of a noble spirit nothing is more unpleasant, than to incur disgrace. Hence we may observe in all histories...
Paul had said that God exhorted by his means. In Chapter 6 the affection of the apostle carries on by the Spirit this divine work, beseeching the Corinthians that it might not be in vain in their case...
BY HONOUR AND DISHONOUR,.... Some persons think and speak honourably of us, and behave in a reverent manner towards us; they wish us well, bid us God speed, receive us into their houses, and treat us...
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and _yet_ true; Ver. 8. _By honour and dishonour, &c._] It is written on heaven doors (said that martyr), "Do well and hear ill....
_By honour and dishonour_ When we are present; _by evil report and good report_ When we are absent. Who could bear honour and good report, were they not balanced by dishonour and evil report? _As dece...
AS DECEIVERS; in the view of our enemies....
BY HONOR AND DISHONOR, BY EVIL REPORT AND GOOD REPORT: AS DECEIVERS, AND YET TRUE;...
The example of Paul in the midst of difficulties:...
The message of reconciliation having been received by the Corinthians, now the Lord's servants, as fellow-workmen in unity, had further entreaty to make of them. Their profession of faith would be tes...
1-10 The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel the offers of salvation, and the pre...
BY HONOUR AND DISHONOUR; we depart not from our integrity, whether we be honoured or dishonoured. BY EVIL REPORT AND GOOD REPORT; well or evilly reported of. This hath from the beginning been the lot...
by glory and dishonor [When present in such cities as Philippi, Thessalonica and Corinth, etc., Paul had been held in glory and honor by the converts of his ministry, but had been dishonored by heathe...
2 Corinthians 6:8 by G1223 honor G1391 and G2532 dishonor G819 by G1223 report G1426 and G2532 report G2162
AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH GOD PAUL NOW FURTHER CITES THEIR OWN CREDENTIALS AS THOSE WHO SHARE IN THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST (2 CORINTHIANS 6:3) The following description of their genuineness and of all t...
‘By glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alwa...
2 Corinthians 6:8.... AS DECEIVERS in the account of our enemies, AND _YET_ TRUE in reality;...
BY GLORY AND DISHONOUR (δια δοξης κα ατιμιας). Here δια is no longer instrument, but state or condition. Δοξα here is glory. See Romans 9:21; 2 Timothy 2:20 for contrast between honour and dishonou...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain._ God's servants are called to take many different positions. They are ambassa...
CONTENTS: Paul's ministry to the Corinthians. Appeal to separation and cleansing. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The ministers of the Gospel should look upon themselves as Go...
2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then as workers together_ with the Lord, who has by himself purged our sins, and reconciled all things to himself on the cross, and has commissioned us to continue the ministry...
WE ARE. Paul shows the paradox of his service to Christ. People respond differently to his work of preaching Christ. [_MacKnight_ sees in this the fact that Paul neither becomes conceited nor discoura...
_By pureness._ PURENESS The Greek word--like the cognate form, “holiness”--seems to come from a root denoting reverence. It suggests the thought of the awe with which nature herself regards the prese...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 6:3 Paul defends his ministry as an apostle by once again calling attention to his faithfulness amid the changing circumstances of his apostolic life. Paul’s minist...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He exhorts them not to neglect the proffered grace of reconciliation spoken of at the end of the last chapter. II. He points out (ver. 4) the qualities required...
_By honour and dishonour._ Whether we are honoured and praised, or dishonoured and abused, as, _e.g_., when the Lycaonians wished to worship Paul as God, and directly afterwards to stone him as an imp...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THIS CHAPTER WRONGLY ISOLATED AT BOTH ENDS by the customary division of the book. Connection quite closely continuous between 2 Corinthians 5:20 and 2 Corinthians 6:1; as also between...
EXPOSITION The methods and conditions of an apostolic ministry (2 Corinthians 6:1). Appeal to the Corinthians to reciprocate his affection and separate themselves from evil (2 Corinthians 6:11)....
We then, as workers together with him (2 Corinthians 6:1), And what a glorious way to view the ministry. I'm working with Jesus, working together with Him. [We] beseech you also that ye receive not t...
1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Peter 4:14; 1 Timothy 3:7; 1 Timothy 4:10;...
Deceivers. See ch. 2 Corinthians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 4:2. The opinions concerning Paul as a deceiver are mirrored in the Clementine Homilies and Recognitions, spurious writings, ascribed to Clement of...
By honour and dishonour — When we are present. By evil report and good report — When we are absent. Who could bear honour and good report, were it not balanced by dishonour? As deceivers — Artful, des...