TSK · 2 Corinthians 6:4

No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the LORD anymore. So the priests, those who serve the LORD, are in mourning.

By your endurance you will gain your lives.

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

And the Lord’s slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.