Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. New Living Translation Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything. English Standard Version as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. Berean Standard Bible sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. Berean Literal Bible as being sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. King James Bible As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. New King James Version as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. New American Standard Bible as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things. NASB 1995 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things. NASB 1977 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things. Legacy Standard Bible as sorrowful but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things. Amplified Bible as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet bestowing riches on many; as having nothing, yet possessing all things. Christian Standard Bible as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. Holman Christian Standard Bible as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything. American Standard Version as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Aramaic Bible in Plain English As if we sorrow and we always rejoice, as if poor and we make many rich, as if we have nothing and yet we possess everything. Contemporary English Version and we are always happy, even in times of suffering. Although we are poor, we have made many people rich. And though we own nothing, everything is ours. Douay-Rheims Bible As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as needy, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things. English Revised Version as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. GOD'S WORD® Translation People think we are sad although we're always glad, that we're beggars although we make many people spiritually rich, that we have nothing although we possess everything. Good News Translation although saddened, we are always glad; we seem poor, but we make many people rich; we seem to have nothing, yet we really possess everything. International Standard Version as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything. Literal Standard Version as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things. Majority Standard Bible sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. New American Bible as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. NET Bible as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. New Revised Standard Version as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. New Heart English Bible as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Webster's Bible Translation As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Weymouth New Testament as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things. World English Bible as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things. Young's Literal Translation as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Paul's Hardships and God's Grace…9as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.… Cross References Proverbs 13:7 One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. John 16:22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. Acts 3:6 But Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things? 1 Corinthians 1:5 For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge, 1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours, 2 Corinthians 7:4 Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows. Treasury of Scripture As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. sorrowful. 2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 2 Corinthians 7:3-10 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you… Matthew 5:4,12 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted… poor. 2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, making. 2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? and. 2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Jump to Previous Alway Always Bestow Enriching Full Glad Grieved Joyful Making Others Poor Possess Possessing Rejoicing Rich Sad Securely Sorrow Sorrowful WealthJump to Next Alway Always Bestow Enriching Full Glad Grieved Joyful Making Others Poor Possess Possessing Rejoicing Rich Sad Securely Sorrow Sorrowful Wealth2 Corinthians 6 1. That he has approved himself a faithful minister of Christ by his exhortations,3. and by integrity of life, 4. and by patiently enduring all kinds of affliction and disgrace for the gospel. 10. Of which he speaks the more boldly amongst them because his heart is open to them, 13. and he expects the like affection from them again; 14. exhorting them to flee the society and pollutions of idolaters, 17. as being themselves temples of the living God. (10) As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.--Are we still in the region of the taunts and sneers of which we have found such distinct traces in the previous verses? Did men say of him, as others had said of the saints of God before him, that he was "smitten of God, and afflicted"? Was it with him, as with David, that when he wept, that "was turned to his reproof"? that when he "made sackcloth his garment" he "became a proverb unto them"? (Psalm 69:10-11.) This seems, on the whole, the most probable explanation of the words. His Jewish rivals, or the jesters of Corinth, taunted him with his want of cheerfulness, "He was always in trouble." This, at least, enables us to understand the bitterness of spirit in which St. Paul spoke, and to enter into the full force of his answer: "Yea, but with our sorrow there is also the ever-flowing well-spring of joy--a joy not of the world, but of the Holy Ghost." As poor, yet making many rich.--Better, as a beggar. It is not hard to imagine that the outward circumstances of St. Paul's life, his daily toil as a tent-maker, his accepting gifts from the Church of Philippi (2Corinthians 11:8-9; Philippians 4:15), would furnish occasion for some taunting jest. We seem to hear men speaking of him as a "beggar," a "mendicant." "Yes," he answers, "but I am able to make many rich." It is a possible, though perhaps not altogether an adequate, explanation of the words to see in them a reference to the fact that out of his "poverty" he was able to supply the necessities of others (Acts 20:35). We must, at all events, think of his words as including something more than this, and reminding the Corinthians that he had made many rich with the unsearchable riches of Christ. As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.--The series of paradoxes culminates in this. In language which has found echoes in the thoughts of sages, saints, mystics, he utters the truth that in the absolute surrender of the thought of calling anything its own the soul becomes the heir of the universe. All things are his, as with the certainty of an assured inheritance. The beatitude of the meek, of those who claim nothing, is that they "shall inherit the earth," and so all things are theirs--the forces of nature, and the changes and chances of life--for all are working together for their good. (See Note on Matthew 5:5.) . . . Verse 10. - As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing. The early Christians always insist on "joy" as one of the fruits of the Spirit (comp. Matthew 5:10-12), and especially joy in the midst of grief and anguish (Romans 5:3; Romans 14:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:16, "Rejoice always"). The best proof that this was no mere phraseology, but an amazing and new charism granted to the world, may be seen in the Epistle to the Philippians. It was written when St. Paul was old, poor, deserted, imprisoned, in danger of immediate death. and apparently in the lowest deeps of forsakes sorrow; vet the spontaneous keynote of the whole Epistle is, "I rejoice; rejoice ye" (Philippians 4:6, 12). As poor. The word means even "paupers," and describes a very literal fact. St. Paul, for Christ's sake, had suffered "the loss of all things" (Philippians 3:8). Yet making many rich. Not by getting collections for them (which would be a most unworthy antithesis, though it is strangely accepted by Chrysostom and others); but "by imparting to them the true riches, in the form of spiritual gifts, and the teaching of the gospel" (comp. James 2:5). Possessing all things; rather, as having nothing, and fully having all things. The verb means "possessing all things to the full." For "all things are ours" (1 Corinthians 3:21, 22).Parallel Commentaries ... Greek sorrowful,λυπούμενοι (lypoumenoi) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3076: To pain, grieve, vex. From lupe; to distress; reflexively or passively, to be sad. yet δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. always ἀεὶ (aei) Adverb Strong's 104: From an obsolete primary noun; 'ever, 'by qualification regularly; by implication, earnestly. rejoicing; χαίροντες (chairontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 5463: A primary verb; to be 'cheer'ful, i.e. Calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation, be well. poor, πτωχοὶ (ptōchoi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4434: Poor, destitute, spiritually poor, either in a good sense (humble devout persons) or bad. yet δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. {making} many πολλοὺς (pollous) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 4183: Much, many; often. rich; πλουτίζοντες (ploutizontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4148: To make rich, cause to abound in, enrich. From ploutos; to make wealthy. having ἔχοντες (echontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. nothing, μηδὲν (mēden) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 3367: No one, none, nothing. and yet καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. possessing κατέχοντες (katechontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2722: From kata and echo; to hold down, in various applications. everything. πάντα (panta) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. 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