Parallel Verses
Worsley New Testament
For whether we be in extasies, it is to God: or if we be composed, it is for your benefit.
New American Standard Bible
For if we
King James Version
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
Holman Bible
For if we are out of our mind,
International Standard Version
So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.
A Conservative Version
For whether we are beside ourselves to God, or we are of normal mind, it is for you.
American Standard Version
For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
Amplified
If we are out of our mind [just unstable fanatics as some critics say], it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit.
An Understandable Version
For if we [seem to] be crazy, it is for the sake [of the work] of God, or if we [seem to] be sensible, it is for your benefit.
Anderson New Testament
For if we be beside our selves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you.
Bible in Basic English
For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.
Common New Testament
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for if I glory even to transport, my glorying is in God: if I am moderate, my glorying is for your service.
Darby Translation
For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or are sober, it is for you.
Godbey New Testament
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we have our right minds, it is for you.
Goodspeed New Testament
For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.
John Wesley New Testament
For if we are transported beyond ourselves, it is to God; if we are sober, it is for your sakes.
Julia Smith Translation
For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.
King James 2000
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be in our right mind, it is for your cause.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if we are out of our senses, [it is] for God; if we are of sound mind, [it is] for you.
Modern King James verseion
For if we are out of our mind, it is to God; or if we are in our senses, it is for you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if we be too fervent, to God are we too fervent: if we keep measure, for your cause keep we measure.
Moffatt New Testament
'I am beside myself,' am I? Well, that is between myself and God. I am 'sane,' am I? Well, that is in your interests;
Montgomery New Testament
For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.
NET Bible
For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
New Heart English Bible
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
Noyes New Testament
For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are in our sound mind, it is for you.
Sawyer New Testament
For if we are beside ourselves it is for God; and if we are sober it is for you.
The Emphasized Bible
For, whether we have been beside ourselves, it hath been for God, or, whether we are sober-minded, it is for you.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if we are transported out of ourselves, it is for God; or if we are sober-minded, it is for your sake.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For, if we were "beside ourselves," it was in God's service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!
Webster
For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we are sober, it is for your cause.
Weymouth New Testament
For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.
Williams New Testament
For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.
World English Bible
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
Worrell New Testament
For whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is for you.
Youngs Literal Translation
for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind -- it is to you,
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Controlled By The Love Of Christ
12 for we are not again recommending ourselves to you, but giving you an occasion of glorying on our account; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart. 13 For whether we be in extasies, it is to God: or if we be composed, it is for your benefit. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us, being fully persuaded of this, that if One died for all, then were all dead.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish ye would bear with me a little in my folly; and indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I should incline to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I should speak truth. But I forbear least any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Am I become vain in boasting? ye have forced me to it: for I ought to have been recommended by you, as I have in nothing fallen short of the very chiefest of the apostles, though in myself I am nothing.
Acts 26:24-25
And as he was saying these things in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning turns thy brain.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace conferred on me I charge every one among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think: but to think with sobriety, according as God hath divided to every man the measure of faith.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ: we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honoured, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 7:12
Wherefore if I wrote in such a manner to you, it was not merely on his account who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had been injured; but that our care for you in the sight of God might be manifested among you.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much certainty; as ye know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-11
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of impurity, nor in guile:
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.