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2 Corinthians 6:9
9as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death;
2 Corinthians 6:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
- New International Version (NIV)known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;
- English Standard Version (ESV)as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed;
- New King James Version (NKJV)as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed;
Context of 2 Corinthians 6:9
7in truthful speech, in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8through honor and dishonor, through evil report and good report. We are regarded as deceivers and yet true; as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death; 10as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything. 11We have spoken openly to you, O Corinthians; our heart is open wide!
Read all of 2 Corinthians 62 Corinthians 6:9 word by word
ὡς ἀγνοούμενοι καὶ ἐπιγινωσκόμενοι, ὡς ἀποθνῄσκοντες καὶ ἰδοὺ ζῶμεν, ὡς παιδευόμενοι καὶ μὴ θανατούμενοι,Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
- unknownἀγνοέωagnoeō · be ignorantG50
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- well knownἐπιγινώσκωepiginōskō · to come to knowG1921
- dyingἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
- beholdὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
- we liveζάωzaō · to liveG2198
- chastenedπαιδεύωpaideuō · to instructG3811
- notμήmē · notG3361
- killedθανατόωthanatoō · to killG2289
Cross-references for 2 Corinthians 6:9
- Acts 17:18Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What’s this babbler trying to say?” while others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was proclaiming the Good News of Yeshua and the resurrection.
- Acts 21:37As Paul was about to be brought into the headquarters, he said to the commander, “Can I say something to you?” The commander said, “You know Greek?
- Acts 25:14While they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left behind as a prisoner by Felix.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
- 2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we are trying to persuade people, but what we are is known to God—and I hope it is known to your consciences as well.
- 2 Corinthians 11:6Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.
- Acts 19:26You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but also throughout all Asia, Paul has persuaded and perverted a considerable crowd, saying that handmade gods are not gods at all.
- Romans 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem and around even to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the Good News of Messiah.
- Galatians 1:22But I was personally unknown to Messiah’s communities of Judea;
- 2 Corinthians 1:8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our trouble that happened in Asia. We were under great pressure—so far beyond our strength that we despaired even of living.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10always carrying in the body the death of Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua may also be revealed in our mortal body.
- Romans 8:36As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:31I die every day—yes, as surely as the boast in you, brothers and sisters, which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
- Psalms 118:17I will not die, but live, and proclaim what Adonai has done!
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged, we are being disciplined by the Lord so that we might not be condemned along with the world.
Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 6:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9As unknown - Persons who are to be suspected as harbouring dark designs; persons of neither birth, parentage, nor respectable connections in life; And yet well known - Proved by our whole conduct to have no such designs, and demonstrated to be holy, upright, and useful, by the whole train of our peregrinations, through which we can be readily traced from place to place; having preached openly, and done nothing in a corner. As dying - Through continual…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9As unknown - As those who are deemed to be of an obscure and ignoble rank in life, unknown to the great, unknown to fame. The idea, I think, is, that they went as strangers, as persons unknown, in preaching the gospel. Yet, though thus unknown they endeavor to commend themselves as the ministers of God. Though among strangers; though having no introduction from the great and the noble, yet they endeavored so to act as to convince the world that they were…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10People often attacked Paul's character as an apostle, even calling him and his colleagues imposters. Despite these attitudes, Paul remained honest. They likely thought Paul was insignificant and could be ignored, a reckless person taking unnecessary risks that made him seem almost dead already. Paul countered each of their claims with insights into spiritual reality.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. unknown ... yet well known--"unknown" in our true character to those who "evil report" of us, "well known" to those who hold us in "good report" (2Co 6:8). Conybeare explains, "Unknown by men, yet acknowledged by God" (1Co 13:12). Perhaps both God and men (believers) are intended as knowing him (2Co 5:11; 11:6). dying ... live--(2Co 1:9; 4:10, 11; 11:23). Compare Gaussen's remark, see on 2Co 6:5. "Behold" calls attention to the fact as something beyond…Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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