2 Corinthians 6:2

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

(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 succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) This Chapter opens with an address to the Church, on the kind reception of the services of Paul, and his companions in the ministry. He calls them workers together; that is, fellow laborers, in the word, and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:2

Now is the day of salvation, by the coming of your Redeemer. (Witham) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

1-10 The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel the offers of salvation, and the present time the proper time to accept these offers. The morrow is none of ours: we know not what will be on the morrow, nor where we shall be. We now enjoy a day of grace; then let all be careful not to neglect it. Ministers of the gospel should look upon themselves as God's servants, and act in every... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:1-99

2Co 6 AS WE OPEN chapter 6, we find Paul making a personal application and an appeal to the Corinthians concerning these things. Paul and his companions were fellow-workers in connection with the ministry (the words, “with Him,” are to be omitted); and they had faithfully brought the word whether of new covenant grace or of reconciliation, to the Corinthians. Now their beseeching was that the grace of the Gospel should not be received in vain by them. Grace is received in vain if it does not... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

Paul's Ministry in the Midst of Difficulties. 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 Samuel : Fellow-workers of God: v. 1. We, then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. v. 2. (For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) Paul had just given a summary description of the ministry of reconciliation which had been entrusted to... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

XI.—THE APOSTLE’S APPEAL IN AN ETHICAL POINT OF VIEW. HIS CONDUCT IN RELATION TO IT2 Corinthians 6:1-101 1We then, [om. We then] as workers together with him, [then, we also] beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 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 [well accepted, εὐπρόσδεκτος] time; behold, now is the day of salvation). 3 3Giving no offence [occasion for stumbling,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Ambassadors for Christ 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1-10 On God’s side the work of reconciliation is complete. Everything has been done and is in readiness to make forgiveness and justifying righteousness possible as soon as a penitent soul asks for them. He only waits for us to make application for our share in the atonement of Calvary. Many as our trespasses have been, they are not reckoned to us, because they were reckoned to Christ. God wants this known, and so from age to... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:1-18

The injunction, "We intreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain," harmonizes in method with many others used by Paul. Let your conduct harmonize with your position in grace. With what powerful argument does he make his appeal! As "ambassadors on behalf of Christ," as though God were "intreating by us," "working together with Him we intreat." These arguments are made powerful by the method of all the apostle's ministry, which he goes on to describe. These descriptions may be... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:2

THE ACCEPTABLE TIME‘Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’ 2 Corinthians 6:2 This repeated word ‘now’ reminds us that the time it embraces is a short time. Whether we interpret it to mean to-day, or yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow, or even extend it to the threescore years and ten, the normally allotted years of man, it is still very short. I. To every individual there is a golden present which can never return, and in which may lie boundless opportunities... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 6:1-2

God’s Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:11 to 2 Corinthians 6:2 ). Having spoken of God’s work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of the Christian’s future by means of the resurrection, Paul now goes back to the basis of it all, man’s reconciliation with God. If men are to know these things that he has described there needs to be a new creation. And man needs to be reconciled to God, a reconciliation which is only found in Christ... read more

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