Discovery Box2 Corinthians 6:4-6 
Context6:4 But as God’s servants, 1 we have commended ourselves in every way, 2 with great endurance, in persecutions, 3 in difficulties, in distresses, 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, 4 in troubles, 5 in sleepless nights, in hunger, 6:6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, 6 by genuine 7 love,
1 tn Or “ministers.”
2 tn Or “we have commended ourselves by all things.”
3 tn Or “in trouble and suffering.”
4 tn Or “rebellions” (uprisings in open defiance of civil authority).
5 tn Usually κόποις (kopois) has been translated as “labors” or “hard work,” but see Matt 26:10 where it means “trouble”; “distress” (L&N 22.7). In this context with so many other terms denoting suffering and difficulty, such a meaning is preferable.
6 tn Or “by holiness of spirit.”
7 tn Or “sincere.”
