Verse 2

I knew a man in Christ over fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell, or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows) who was caught up to the third heaven.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Jeg kjente en mann i Kristus for over fjorten år siden, (om han var i kroppen, vet jeg ikke; eller om han var utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke: Gud vet); en slik mann ble tatt opp til den tredje himmel.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Jeg kjenner en mann som er i Kristus, for ca. fjorten år siden (enten i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet), ble han tatt opp til den tredje himmelen.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg kjente en mann i Kristus for over fjorten år siden, (om han var i kroppen eller ute av kroppen, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet;) en slik mann ble tatt opp til den tredje himmelen.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg kjenner en person i Kristus som for fjorten år siden ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel – om det var i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke, det vet Gud.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus som for fjorten år siden, enten i legemet, vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor legemet, vet jeg ikke, Gud vet det, ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus som for fjorten år siden ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel (om det var i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet det).

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For over fjorten år siden kjente jeg en mann i Kristus, enten i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, jeg vet ikke; Gud vet. Han ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For fjorten år siden kjente jeg en mann i Kristus (om det var med kroppen, kan jeg ikke si; eller utenfor kroppen, kan jeg heller ikke si – Gud vet det), en slik som ble tatt opp til den tredje himmel.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, som for over fjorten år siden (om det var i kroppen, vet jeg ikke, eller om han var utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke, Gud vet det) ble rykket bort til den tredje himmel.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, som for over fjorten år siden (om det var i kroppen, vet jeg ikke, eller om han var utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke, Gud vet det) ble rykket bort til den tredje himmel.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus som for fjorten år siden (om det var i kroppen vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor kroppen vet jeg ikke; Gud vet det) ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows—was caught up to the third heaven.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Jeg vet om en mann i Kristus som for fjorten år siden ble rykket opp til tredje himmel, (om det var i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet det).

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg kjender et Menneske i Christo, som for fjorten Aar siden — hvad heller han var i Legemet, veed jeg ikke, eller udenfor Legemet, veed jeg ikke, Gud veed det — blev henrykket indtil den tredie Himmel.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg kjente en mann i Kristus for over fjorten år siden (om det var i kroppen, kan jeg ikke si, heller ikke om det var utenfor kroppen; Gud vet det), som ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, for fjorten år siden (om han var i kroppen, vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor kroppen, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet), ble en slik mann rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, for fjorten år siden — om det var i kroppen vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor kroppen vet jeg ikke, Gud vet det — en slik en ble rykket bort til den tredje himmel;

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, som for fjorten år siden (om det var i legemet eller utenfor legemet vet jeg ikke; Gud vet), ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus, for fjorten år siden (om han var i kroppen eller utenfor kroppen, kan jeg ikke si, bare Gud vet), som ble tatt opp til den tredje himmel.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  I knowe a ma in Christ above.xiiij. yeares agone (whether he weare in ye body I cannot tell or whether he were oute of ye body I canot tell god knoweth) which was take vp into the thyrd heven.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I knowe a man in Christ aboue fourtene yeares a goo (whether he was in ye body, I can not tell: or whether he was out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth.) the same was taken vp in to the thirde heauen:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I know a man in Christ aboue fourteene yeeres agone, (whether he were in the body, I can not tell, or out of the body, I can not tell: God knoweth) which was taken vp into the thirde heauen.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For I knew a ma in Christe, aboue xiiij. yeres ago, (whether he were in the body I can not tell, or whether he were out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth) that he was taken vp into the thirde heauen:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
• Acts 22:17 : 17 And it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance,
• 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
• Rev 12:5 : 5 And she gave birth to a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
• 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
• Rom 16:7 : 7 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are esteemed among the apostles, and were in Christ before me.
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—
• 2 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and prefer to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
• Rom 8:1 : 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 12:3-5 : 3 And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows) 4 How he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a person to utter. 5 Of such a one will I boast, yet of myself I will not boast, but in my weaknesses.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
• Gal 1:22 : 22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which are in Christ.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision matters nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
• Eph 4:10 : 10 He who descended is the same also who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
• Phil 1:22-23 : 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I do not know. 23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better;
• Gen 1:14-20 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the sky of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. 15 And let them be for lights in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and birds that may fly above the earth in the open sky of heaven.
• 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?
• 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.
• 2 Kgs 2:16 : 16 And they said to him, Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master: lest perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, You shall not send.
• Ps 148:4 : 4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.
• Isa 45:24-25 : 24 Surely, they shall say, In the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him shall men come; and all who are incensed against Him shall be ashamed. 25 In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Ezek 8:1-3 : 1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. 2 Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his waist even downward, fire; and from his waist even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber. 3 And he stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that faces toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
• Ezek 11:24 : 24 Afterward the spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
• Luke 24:51 : 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them and carried up into heaven.
• John 6:56 : 56 He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.
• John 15:4-6 : 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
• John 17:21-23 : 21 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
• Acts 8:39-40 : 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.
• Acts 14:6 : 6 They became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ has not entered into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
• Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, like a trumpet,
• Rev 4:2 : 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.