We then, as workers together with him— As the joint-labourers of God. Doddridge. As instruments employed by God. Heylin. See 1 Corinthians 3:9. Receiving the grace of God in vain, is the same with believing in vain, 1 Corinthians 15:2. That is, receiving the doctrine of the gospel for truth, and professing Christianity, without experiencing its power, and performing what the gospel requires.
CHAPTER VI. _We should not receive the grace of God in vain, having such_ _promises of support from him_, 1, 2. _We should act so as to bring no disgrace on the Gospel_, 3. _How the apostles behav...
WE THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM - On the meaning of this expression, see the note, 1 Corinthians 3:9. The Greek here is (συνεργοῦντες sunergountes) “working together,” and may mean either that...
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...
So then we are acting as ambassadors on Christ's behalf, for God is sending you his invitation through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made him who had no acquaintance...
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST (2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-2)...
AS WORKERS TOGETHER. working together. See Romans 8:28. WITH HIM. Omit. See 1 Corinthians 3:9. BESEECH. App-184. YOU. Omit. NOT. App-106. GRACE. See 2 Corinth
2 Corinthians 6:1-10. How God's Ministers carry on this Work of Reconciliation 1. _We then, as workers together with him_ Cf. 1 Corinthians 3:9, which, together with the context here, shews that our...
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...
ΣΥΝΕΡΓΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΚΑῚ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ. BUT WORKING _together_ (_with him_) WE INTREAT _also_. The reference is to 2 Corinthians 5:20 : ‘we besought you on Christ’s behalf to become reconciled to God; _bu...
_WORKERS TOGETHER FOR GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1-5:_ Let us make good use of the opportunities that are ours by the grace of God as we labor together in the kingdom of Christ. Our salvation and the salvati...
ΣΥΝΕΡΓΟΫ́ΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part._ (причины) ΣΥΝΕΡΓΈΩ (G4903) работать с кем-л., сотрудничать, работать вместе. Дополнением к _part._ может быть только "Бог" (Barrett; Martin), ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΫ́ΜΕΝ _praes....
DISCOURSE: 2024 THE GRACE OF GOD NOT TO BE RECEIVED IN VAIN 2 Corinthians 6:1. _We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith, I h...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 In Attitudes (2 Corinthians 6:1-2) 6 Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2For he says, At the acceptable time I hav...
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...
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in v...
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...
6:1 fellow-workmen, (h-3) See 1 Corinthians 3:9 . Here literally 'jointly labouring;' the connection is in the word 'beseech.'...
WORKERS TOGETHER _with him_] For the idea cp. 1 Corinthians 3:9. IN VAIN] i.e. by an unholy life....
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...
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...
VI. (1) WE THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM, BESEECH YOU... — The thought of the marvel of the atoning love fills the heart of St. Paul with an almost passionate desire to see its purpose realised i...
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...
to 2 Corinthians 6:3. AS CHRIST'S AMBASSADOR HE ENTREATS THE CORINTHIANS TO BE RECONCILED TO GOD....
συνεργοῦντες δὲ καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν κ. τ. λ.: _and working together_ (that is, with God, as is plain from chap. 2 Corinthians 5:20, and also in connexion with 1 Corinthians 3:9; _cf._ Acts 15:4), _we, sc...
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...
VERSE 1 In verse 20 of chapter 5, Paul had called himself Christ's ambassador. He now says that he and Jesus work together to save the Corinthians. Paul pleaded with them to remain faithful so they wo...
We (1) then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (1) Men do not only need the ministry of the Gospel before they have received grace, in...
_We helping, or in the Greek, working together, that is, with God, as employed by him, or as his ministers, and ambassadors, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain, by resisting his int...
CONTENTS In, the former Part of this Chapter, the Apostle is treating the Subject of the Ministry. In the latter, he cautions the Church against communications with infidels....
(1) We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (2) (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I su...
_EFFECTIVE SERVICE_ ‘Workers together with Him.’ 2 Corinthians 6:1 All effective Church work has its essence in the spiritual life of the worker. That life is replenished continually by union with...
_OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY_ ‘We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.’ 2 Corinthians 6:1 The two most solemn words in our language...
1._Assisting. _He has repeated the instructions of embassy with which the ministers of the gospel have been furnished by God. After they have faithfully communicated these instructions, they must also...
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...
WE THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM,.... The ministers of the Gospel are workers or labourers; their ministry is a work, and a very laborious one, which none have strength equal to, and are sufficie...
We then, _as_ workers together _with him_, beseech _you_ also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. Ver. 1. _As workers together_] Not as coadjutors, but as instruments, such as God is please...
_We then, as workers together with him_ Being employed by God in such an important embassy, we prosecute it, and _beseech you that ye receive not the_ gospel of the _grace of God_ Which announces such...
THE GRACE OF GOD; his gracious offer of pardon and salvation through Christ....
PAUL'S MINISTRY IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTIES. 2 Corinthians 6:1 Fellow-workers of God:...
WE, THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM, BESEECH YOU ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN....
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...
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 6 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1,2 Paul entreateth the Corinthians not to frustrate God's grace, 2 CORINTHIANS 6:3 setting forth his own inoffensive, painful, and patient demeanour in the dis...
And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain...
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GOD'S MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION (2 CORINTHIANS 5:11 TO 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2). Having spoken of God's work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of the Chri...
‘And working together with him we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.' So as those who are His ambassadors, as those who are ‘workers-together' with Him (compare 1 Corinthia...
2 Corinthians 6:1. AND WORKING TOGETHER _with him,_ WE ENTREAT ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD compare Acts 24:24, “the gospel of the grace of God,” and ACTS 13:42, “persuaded them to contin...
WORKING TOGETHER WITH HIM (συνεργουντες). We are co-workers, partners with God (1 Corinthians 3:9), in this work of grace.IN VAIN (εις κενον). Into emptiness. The plan of God, the work of Christ...
2 Corinthians 6:1 I. Consider, first, the Apostle's caution, that we do not receive the grace of God in vain. The word _grace_has various significations in Scripture, some of more restricted and some...
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...
TOGETHER WITH GOD. Paul sees all the servants of Christ working together with God in the mission of persuading people to let God change them from enemies into friends! WASTED. Grace is free, and salva...
_We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain _ WORKERS TOGETHER Once when a number of employees were invited down to Mr. George Moore’s count...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1 The GRACE OF GOD comes through the death of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14). Those who turn back from Christ show tha
_We then, as workers together with Him._ We, as workers together with God, beseech you to accept this proffered reconciliation, spoken of in vers. 18, 19, and 20, of the preceding chapter. _Beseech yo...
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...
_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 3:9; 1 Peter 4:10; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 5:18;...
As workers together with Him [σ υ ν ε ρ γ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Lit., working together. With Him is implied in the compounded oun with. That it refers to God, not to the fellow - Christians, is evident from t...
We then not only beseech, but as fellow — labourers with you, who are working out your own salvation, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God — Which we have been now describing. In vain —...
Here note, 1. The nature of the ministerial function: The ministry is. work, an arduous and laborious work; neither angels nor men are of themselves sufficient for it, without proportionable assistanc...