2 Corinthians 11:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For{G1063} I am jealous{G2206} over you{G5209} with a godly{G2316} jealousy:{G2205} for{G1063} I espoused{G718} you{G5209} to one{G1520} husband,{G435} that I might present{G3936} you [as] a pure{G53} virgin{G3933} to Christ.{G5547}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For{G1063} I am jealous{G2206}{(G5719)} over you{G5209} with godly{G2316} jealousy{G2205}: for{G1063} I have espoused{G718}{(G5668)} you{G5209} to one{G1520} husband{G435}, that I may present{G3936}{(G5658)} you as a chaste{G53} virgin{G3933} to Christ{G5547}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For I am gelous over you with godly gelousy. For I coupled you to one man to make you a chaste virgen to Christ.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For I am gelous ouer you wt godly gelousy. For I haue maried you vnto one ma, to brynge a chaste virgin vnto Christ.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For I am ielous ouer you, with godly ielousie: for I haue prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgine to Christ:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For I am gelous ouer you, with Godly gelousie: For I haue coupled you to one man, to present you a chaste virgin vnto Christe.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you `as' a pure virgin to Christ.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 2:19-20 : 19 And I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
  • Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
  • Eph 5:26-27 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.
  • Lev 21:13-15 : 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these he shall not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
  • Isa 62:4-5 : 4 You shall no longer be called Forsaken; nor shall your land any longer be called Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
  • Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him.
  • Gen 24:2-5 : 2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4 But you shall go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5 And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"
  • Gen 24:58-67 : 58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go." 59 So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gates of those who hate them." 61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. 62 Now Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, "Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?" The servant had said, "It is my master." Therefore she took a veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 Knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also by Jesus, and will present us with you.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.
  • Gal 4:17-19 : 17 They zealously court you, but not for good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may have zeal for them. 18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 I wish you would bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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    34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35 And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

  • 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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    15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

    17 But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

  • 32 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

  • 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

  • 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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    15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

    16 But be it so, I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

  • 2 Thus says the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

  • 25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, yet I give my judgment as one whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy.

  • 14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me, Proclaim, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great zeal.

  • 5 For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

  • 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

  • 2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 23 Moreover, I call God as a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I did not come yet to Corinth.

  • 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

  • 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;

  • 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, what diligence it produced in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation, yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what vindication! In all things you have proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

  • 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • 17 They zealously court you, but not for good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may have zeal for them.

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    7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her children:

    8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.

  • 8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

  • Hos 2:19-20
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    19 And I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

    20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.

  • 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

  • 15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love for all the saints,

  • 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16 The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains:

    17 But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

  • 29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself;

  • 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

  • 6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

  • 1 Be imitators of me, just as I am of Christ.

  • 4 And this I say, lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words.

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    11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

    12 But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • 8 Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.

  • 11 But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

  • 3 Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain regarding this matter; that, as I said, you may be ready:

  • 14 And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself:

  • 2 Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your engagements, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.