2 Corinthians 6:8
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
KJV
διὰ δόξης καὶ ἀτιμίας, διὰ δυσφημίας καὶ εὐφημίας· ὡς πλάνοι καὶ ἀληθεῖς,
Greek NT
per gloriam, et ignobilitatem, per infamiam, et bonam famam : ut seductores, et veraces, sicut qui ignoti, et cogniti :
Vulgate
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
ASV
By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
δυσφημία
dusphemia
verb · 2×
δόξα
doxa
noun · 166×
εὐφημία
euphemia
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πλάνος
planos
adjective · 5×
ἀληθής
alethes
adjective · 26×
ἀτιμία
atimia
noun · 7×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, E…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 4:14 — If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
- 1Tim 4:10 — For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
- 2Cor 13:7 — Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
- Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
- Acts 28:22 — But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
- Gen 27:12 — My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- John 7:47 — Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
- Matt 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
- Matt 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
- Phil 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
- Ps 71:7 — I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
- Rev 3:9 — Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.