Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 We praise not ourselves again unto you, but give you an occasion to rejoice of us, that ye may have somewhat against them, which rejoice in the face, and not in the heart. 13 For if we be too fervent, to God are we too fervent: if we keep measure, for your cause keep we measure. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead:
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1
Would to God, ye could suffer me a little in my foolishness: yea, and I pray you forbear me.
2 Corinthians 11:16-17
I say again, lest any man think that I am foolish: or else even now take me as a fool, that I may boast myself a little.
2 Corinthians 12:6
and yet though I would rejoice I should not be a fool, for I would say the truth. Nevertheless I spare, lest any man should think of me above that he seeth me to be, or heareth of me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I am made a fool in boasting myself. Ye have compelled me: I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing was I inferior unto the chief apostles, though I be nothing:
2 Samuel 6:21-22
But David said again to Michal, "I thought to dance before the LORD - which chose me, rather thy father and all his kin, and commanded me to be ruler over all the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
Acts 26:24-25
As he thus answered for himself: Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, thou art besides thyself. Much learning hath made thee mad."
Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace that unto me is given, to every man among you: that no man esteem of himself more than it becometh him to esteem - But that he discreetly judge of himself according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We are fools for Christ's sake, and ye are wise through Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.
2 Corinthians 7:12
Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that did hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that our good mind which we have toward you in the sight of God, might appear unto you
Colossians 1:24
Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -
1 Thessalonians 1:5
For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and also in the holy ghost and in much certainty, as ye know after what manner we behaved ourselves among you, for your sakes.
1 Thessalonians 2:3-11
Our exhortation was not to bring you to error, nor yet to uncleanness, neither was it with guile:
2 Timothy 2:10
Herefore I suffer all things, for the elects' sakes, that they might also obtain that salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.