Wherefore we labour. — Better, we strive earnestly after. The English “labour” is quite inadequate, the Greek expressing the thought of striving, as after some honour or prize. Our ambition is that... we may be accepted would be, perhaps, the best equivalent. For “accepted of him” read acceptable, or better, well-pleasing to him: the Greek word implying the quality on which acceptance depends, rather than the act itself.
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2 Corinthians 5:9
9 Wherefore we labour,a that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.