2nd Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 3 Holy Bible
giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
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Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;
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giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;
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Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
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We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
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in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Giving no offence in anything. An undercurrent of necessary self defence runs through St. Paul's exhortation. The participle is, like "fellow workers," a nominative to "we exhort you" in ver. 1. Offence. The word here is not skandalon, which is so often rendered "offence," but proskope, which occurs here alone in the New Testament, and is not found in the LXX. It means "a cause of stumbling." Proskomma, a stumbling block, is used in 1 Corinthians 8:9. Be not blamed. When any just blame can be attached to the minister, the force of the ministry of reconciliation is fatally weakened. (For the word, see 2 Corinthians 8:20.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Giving no offence . . .--The participial construction is resumed from 2Corinthians 6:1, 2Corinthians 6:2 being treated as parenthetical. A subtle distinction in the two forms of the Greek negative suggests the thought that he is here giving, as it were, his own estimate of his aim and endeavour in his work. He avoids all occasion of offence, not because he fears censure for himself, but that "the ministry be not blamed."
