Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.
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.
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.
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 not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you. 14 For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1
I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.
2 Samuel 6:21-22
And David will say to Michal, Before Jehovah who chose in me above thy father and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, over Israel: and I played before Jehovah.
Acts 26:24-25
And he defending himself by these, Festus said with a great voice, Thou art frenzied, Paul; many letters turn thee to madness.
Romans 12:3
For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured
2 Corinthians 7:12
Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-11
For our entreaty nor from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit:
2 Timothy 2:10
For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.