Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Worsley New Testament
For whether we be in extasies, it is to God: or if we be composed, it is for your benefit.
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 commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have an answer for those who glory in countenance, and not in heart. 13 For if we are transported out of ourselves, it is for God; or if we are sober-minded, it is for your sake. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, 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 foolishness, yea indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For though I should be disposed to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I shall speak truth: but I desist, lest any man think of me above what he seeth me to be, or what he heareth of me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
Acts 26:24-25
As thus he was proceeding in his defence, Festus with a loud voice said, Paul, thou art raving; much reading hath driven thee to madness.
Romans 12:3
For, I say, by the grace which is given unto me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has divided to every one the measure of faith.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We are counted fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are mighty; ye are honourable persons, but we despised.
2 Corinthians 7:12
And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in great fulness of assurance; as ye know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-11
And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory.