[a]For he saith, (A)I have heard thee in a time [b]accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold now the accepted time, behold now the day of salvation.

[c]We give no occasion of offence in anything, that our ministry should not be reprehended.

But in all things we [d]approve ourselves as (B)the ministers of God, [e]in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:2 In that that grace is offered, it is of the grace of God, who hath appointed times and seasons to all things, that we may take occasion when it is offered.
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Which I of my free mercy and love towards you, . . . appointed, at which time God poured out that his marvelous love upon us.
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:3 He showeth the Corinthians a pattern of a true minister, in his own example, and Timothy and Silvanus, to the end, that (as he purposed from the beginning) he might procure authority to himself and his like.
  4. 2 Corinthians 6:4 Declare and show indeed.
  5. 2 Corinthians 6:4 He first of all reckoneth up those things which are neither always in the ministers, nor without exception, unless it be according to the affection of the mind, patience only except, which also is one of the virtues which ought to be always in a good minister.

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