--- title: "2 Corinthians 6 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read 2 Corinthians 6 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accep" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/2-corinthians/6" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-corinthians/6)[ Commentary](/study/2-corinthians/6)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-corinthians/6) Audio 1 We then, *as* workers together *with him*, beseech *you* also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now *is* the accepted time; behold, now *is* the day of salvation.) 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4 But in all *things* approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and *yet* true; 9 As unknown, and *yet* well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and *yet* possessing all things. 11 O *ye* Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto *my* children,) be ye also enlarged. 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in *them*; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean *thing*; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. [2 Corinthians 5](/study/2-corinthians/5) [2 Corinthians 7](/study/2-corinthians/7) ## Commentary To verse 1 Verse [2 Corinthians 6:1](/kjv/2-corinthians/6/1). ***We then, as workers together*****with him**] συνεργουντες δε και παρακαλουμεν. The two last words, *with him*, are not in the text, and some supply the place thus: *we then, as workers together* WITH YOU, and the *Armenian* version seems to have read it so; but no MS. has this reading, and no other version. For my own part I see nothing wanting in the text if we only suppose the term *apostles; we*, (i.e. apostles,) *being fellow workers, also entreat* *you not to receive the grace of God in vain*. By the *grace of God*, την χαριν του θεου, *this grace* or *benefit of God*, the apostle certainly means the *grand sacrificial* *offering* of Christ for the sin of the world, which he had just before mentioned in speaking of the *ministry of reconciliation*. We learn, therefore, that it was possible to *receive the grace of* *God* and not ultimately benefit by it; or, in other words, to begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh. Should any one say that it is the *ministry of reconciliation*, that is, the *benefit of apostolic* preaching, that they might receive in vain; I answer, that the apostolic preaching, and the whole ministry of reconciliation, could be no *benefit* to any man farther than it might have been a means of conveying to him the salvation of God. And it is most evident that the apostle has in view that grace or benefit that reconciles us to God, and makes us Divinely righteous. 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