2 Corinthians 5:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you,

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  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
  • 2 Cor 11:16-17 : 16 Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast. 17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
  • Acts 26:24-25 : 24 And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;' 25 and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;
  • Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured; 11 unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about, 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer; 13 being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --
  • 2 Sam 6:21-22 : 21 And David saith unto Michal, `-- Before Jehovah, who fixed on me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, and over Israel, -- yea, I played before Jehovah; 22 and I have been more vile than this, and have been low in mine eyes, and with the handmaids whom thou hast spoken of, with them I am honoured.'
  • Col 1:24 : 24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
  • 1 Thess 1:5 : 5 because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
  • 1 Thess 2:3-9 : 3 for our exhortation `is' not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile, 4 but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts, 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. 7 But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children, 8 so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us, 9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God; 10 ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became, 11 even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,
  • 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.

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    14for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

    15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

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    5And He who did work us to this self-same thing `is' God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;

    6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

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    8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

    9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

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    5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

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    8for 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;

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    10we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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    5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

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    5because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

    6and whether we be in tribulation, `it is' for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, `it is' for your comfort and salvation;

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    8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

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    15because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

    16to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

    17for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

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    11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

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    7The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;

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    10ye `are' witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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    7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

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    8because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

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    10who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;

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    3not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

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    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;