2 Corinthians 6:5

2 Corinthians 6:5

3 ^aWe give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.

4 But in all things we commend ourselves ^aas ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,

5 ^ain stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;

6 by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by¹ sincere love,

7 ^aby the word of truth, by ^bthe power of God, by ^cthe armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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stripes— (II Corinthians 11:23-24; Acts 16:23).

imprisonments— (II Corinthians 11:23). He had been, doubtless, elsewhere imprisoned besides at Philippi when he wrote this Epistle.

tumults— (Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5, Acts 14:19; Acts 16:22; and recently Acts 19:23-41).

labours—in the cause of Christ (II Corinthians 11:23; Romans 16:12).

watchings— (II Corinthians 11:27). Sleepless nights.

fastings—The context here refers to his trials, rather than devotional exercises (compare II Corinthians 11:27). Thus "foodlessness" would seem to be the sense (compare I Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 4:12). But the usual sense of the Greek is fasts, in the strict sense; and in II Corinthians 11:27 it is spoken of independently of "hunger and thirst." (Compare Luke 2:37; Acts 10:30; Acts 14:23). However, Matthew 15:32; Mark 8:3, justify the sense, more favored by the context, foodlessness, though a rare use of the word. GAUSSEN remarks "The apostles combine the highest offices with the humblest exterior: as everything in the Church was to be cast in the mould of death and resurrection, the cardinal principle throughout Christianity."

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