Parallel Verses
John Wesley New Testament
Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification.
New American Standard Bible
All this time
King James Version
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
Holman Bible
You have thought all along that we were defending ourselves to you.
International Standard Version
Have you been thinking all along that we are trying to defend ourselves before you? We are speaking before God in the authority of the Messiah, and everything, dear friends, is meant to build you up.
A Conservative Version
Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.
American Standard Version
Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
Amplified
All this time you have been thinking that we are [merely] defending ourselves to you. It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking [as one] in Christ; and everything, dearly beloved, is to strengthen you [spiritually].
An Understandable Version
You have been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves [have you not]? We are [simply] speaking [the truth] before God in [fellowship with] Christ. But everything [we are doing], dear friends, is to build you up [spiritually].
Anderson New Testament
Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification.
Bible in Basic English
It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
Common New Testament
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Daniel Mace New Testament
do you think I have been making excuses for not coming? as I am a christian, in the presence of God, I have, my beloved, in every thing consulted your advantage.
Darby Translation
Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.
Godbey New Testament
For a long time you were thinking that I am apologizing to you. We speak before God in Christ; but all things, beloved, are for your edification.
Goodspeed New Testament
Have you been supposing all along that it is before you I have been defending myself? It is in the sight of God and as a follower of Christ that I have been speaking. But it is all to do you good, dear friends,
Julia Smith Translation
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.
King James 2000
Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you been thinking all this time that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and all [these things], dear friends, [are] for your edification.
Modern King James verseion
Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
Moffatt New Testament
You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.
Montgomery New Testament
Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.
NET Bible
Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
New Heart English Bible
Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves before you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ; and all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
Noyes New Testament
Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God in Christ that we are speaking; but all things, beloved, for your edification.
Sawyer New Testament
Do you again think that we are defending ourselves? We speak in Christ before God; all these things, beloved, are for your edification.
The Emphasized Bible
All this time, think ye, that, unto you, we are making a defence? Before God in Christ, we speak; - but all these things, beloved, for your upbuilding.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Think ye that we are again making an apology to you? In the sight of God speak we in Christ: but all things, beloved, for your edification.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;
Webster
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.
Weymouth New Testament
You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
Williams New Testament
Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.
World English Bible
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
Worrell New Testament
Think ye all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you? Before God in Christ we are speaking; and all, beloved, for your edification.
Worsley New Testament
Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.
Youngs Literal Translation
Again, 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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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 12:19
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Context Readings
Paul's Concern For The Christians At Corinth
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps? 19 Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification. 20 For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,
Cross References
Romans 9:1
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost?
2 Corinthians 10:8
Yea, if I should boast something more also of the authority which the Lord hath given us, for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
1 Corinthians 14:26
What a thing is it, brethren, that when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation?
Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, revenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:12-23
If others partake of this power over you, do not we rather? Yet we have not used this power: but we suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:14
Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of many that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we again begin to recommend ourselves? Unless we need, as some do, recommendatory letters to you, or recommendatory letters from you?
2 Corinthians 5:12-13
We do not again recommend ourselves to you; but we give you an occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have something to answer them, who glory in appearance, and not in heart.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore, beloved, these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, this my boasting shall not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.