“We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.”
As God's co-workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain — synergoi (co-workers) affirms partnership between God and apostle. The warning: receiving grace (charis) without letting it transform behavior is empty reception (ken, vain). Grace that does not produce fruit has been wasted on the recipient.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:1
For since he said, God beseeches, and we are ambassadors and suppliants unto you, that you be “reconciled unto God:” lest they should become supine, he hereby again alarms and arouses them, saying: “We intreat that you receive not the grace of God in vain.” 'For let us not,' he says, 'therefore be at ease, because He beseeches and has sent some to be ambassadors; nay, but for this very reason let us make haste to please God and to collect spiritual merchandise;' as also he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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