Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the lost,
New American Standard Bible
And even if our
King James Version
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Holman Bible
But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
International Standard Version
So if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are dying.
A Conservative Version
But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,
American Standard Version
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:
Amplified
But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;
An Understandable Version
For even if our Gospel message is veiled, it is veiled [only] from those who are lost.
Bible in Basic English
But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
Common New Testament
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if our gospel be obscure, it is so only to those who are lost:
Darby Translation
But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;
Godbey New Testament
But if indeed our gospel is hidden, it is hidden with those who are lost:
Goodspeed New Testament
If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.
John Wesley New Testament
But if our gospel also is veiled, it is veiled to them that perish;
Julia Smith Translation
And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid:
King James 2000
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,
Modern King James verseion
But also if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those being lost,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If our Gospel be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost,
Moffatt New Testament
Even if my gospel is veiled, it is only veiled in the case of the perishing;
Montgomery New Testament
But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."
NET Bible
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,
New Heart English Bible
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing;
Noyes New Testament
But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to them that perish,
Sawyer New Testament
But if our gospel is vailed it is vailed among the lost,
The Emphasized Bible
And, even if our glad-message is veiled, in them who are perishing, it is veiled,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And if now our gospel be hid, it is hid from those who are lost:
Twentieth Century New Testament
And, even if the Good News that we bring is veiled, it is veiled only in the case of those who are on the path to Ruin--
Webster
But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Weymouth New Testament
If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled, the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the way to perdition,
Williams New Testament
If the meaning of the good news I preach is covered up at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.
World English Bible
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
Worrell New Testament
And, even if our Gospel has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who perish;
Worsley New Testament
And if our gospel also be veiled, it is to those that perish;
Youngs Literal Translation
and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,
Themes
Blindness » Who blinds the minds of unbelievers
spiritual Blindness » Unbelief, the effect of
Gospel » General references to
Gospel » Who the gospel is hid from
The gospel » Is hid to them that are lost
Government » The prince(s) of this world
Losing and things lost » Those that are lost
Power » Of satan » Blinds the minds of unbelievers
Satan » Adversary » Power of » Blinds the minds of unbelievers
Topics
Interlinear
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Euaggelion
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 4:3
Images 2 Corinthians 4:3
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proclaiming Jesus Christ As Lord
2 but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the lost, 4 whose unbelieving minds the god of this age has darkened, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine to them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were blinded: for till this day, in the reading of the old covenant, the same vail remains not taken away, which vail is removed in Christ.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said: I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
Romans 2:16
who show that the work which the law requires, is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing testimony, and their reasonings with each other accusing, or making excuse.
2 Corinthians 2:12
And when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of the Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
For, through God, we are a sweet odor of Christ, among the saved, and among the lost:
2 Corinthians 4:4
whose unbelieving minds the god of this age has darkened, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine to them.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in full assurance, as you know what sort of persons we were among you for your sakes.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
he will destroy him, whose coming is, according to the energy of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
1 Timothy 1:11
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me.