2 Corinthians 4:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

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  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,
  • 2 Cor 1:24 : 24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;
  • Phil 2:11 : 11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is' Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • 1 Thess 2:5-6 : 5 for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!) 6 nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that `is' in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-5 : 2 feed the flock of God that `is' among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock, 4 and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory. 5 In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
  • 1 Cor 2:2 : 2 for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
  • 1 Cor 3:5-6 : 5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;
  • 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 yet to us `is' one God, the Father, of whom `are' the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom `are' the all things, and we through Him;
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; 20 and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain; 21 to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law; 22 I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some. 23 And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.
  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus `is' anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus `is' Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;
  • 2 Cor 1:19 : 19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;
  • Matt 3:11 : 11 `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
  • Matt 20:25-27 : 25 and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, 26 but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant; 27 and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;
  • Matt 23:8 : 8 `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;
  • Luke 22:25-26 : 25 And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors; 26 but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
  • John 1:21-23 : 21 And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.' 22 They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?' 23 He said, `I `am' a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'
  • John 3:27-31 : 27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; 28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; 29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. 30 `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; 31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.
  • John 7:18 : 18 `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
  • John 13:14-15 : 14 if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
  • Acts 2:36 : 36 assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'
  • Acts 3:12-13 : 12 and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? 13 `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release `him',
  • Acts 5:31 : 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;
  • Acts 8:9-9 : 9 And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, 10 to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;'
  • Acts 10:25-26 : 25 and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at `his' feet, did bow before `him'; 26 and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;'
  • Acts 10:36 : 36 the word that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming good news -- peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all,)
  • Acts 14:11-15 : 11 and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;' 12 they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking. 13 And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice, 14 and having heard, the apostles Barnabas and Paul, having rent their garments, did spring into the multitude, crying 15 and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's; 9 for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; 2 for let each one of us please the neighbor for good, unto edification,
  • Rom 15:17-18 : 17 I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God, 18 for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,
  • 1 Cor 1:13-15 : 13 Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized; 14 I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius -- 15 that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;

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