Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Anderson New Testament
But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the 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,
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
De
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 On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight. 3 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. 4 In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.
2 Corinthians 3:14
Besides, their minds were made dull; for to this day that same veil remains unlifted, whenever they read the Old Covenant; because it is only through union with Christ that it is removed.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.
Romans 2:16
on the day when God through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good news I preach, will judge the secrets people have kept.
2 Corinthians 2:12
When I went to Troas to preach the good news of Christ, although I had an opportunity in the service of the Lord,
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
for our preaching of the good news came to you not entirely in words but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with absolute certainty (for you know the kind of men we were among you for your own sakes).
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,
1 Timothy 1:11
as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.