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2 Corinthians 6:3

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

KJV

μηδεμίαν ἐν μηδενὶ διδόντες προσκοπήν, ἵνα μὴ μωμηθῇ ἡ διακονία,

Greek NT

Nemini dantes ullam offensionem, ut non vituperetur ministerium nostrum :

Vulgate

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

ASV

Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
διακονία
diakonia
noun · 34×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδείς
medeis
adjective · 92×
μωμάομαι
momaomai
verb · 2×
προσκοπή
proskope
noun · 1×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:13 — Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
  • 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1Cor 9:22 — To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
  • 1Cor 10:32 — Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
  • 1Cor 10:32 — Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
  • 1Thess 5:22 — Abstain from all appearance of evil.
  • 1Tim 3:7 — Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • 2Tim 2:15 — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
  • Acts 19:37 — For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
  • Acts 20:18 — And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
  • Eph 4:12 — For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
  • Isa 57:14 — And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
  • Matt 17:27 — Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: tha
  • Matt 17:27 — Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: tha
  • Phil 1:10 — That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
  • Phil 2:4 — Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
  • Rom 14:13 — Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
  • Rom 14:13 — Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.