2 Corinthians 5 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

Library Home>2 Corinthians 5 (KJV)

Verse 12

Go

Verse 14

Articles on

2 Corinthians 5

2 Cor. 5:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

+

13

For whether we be besidea ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

a

2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17• ¹Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
¹⁶I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
¹⁷That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. (2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17)

More on:

+

God

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+

we be beside.

2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17• ¹Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
¹⁶I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
¹⁷That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. (2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17)

;

2 Cor. 12:6,11• ⁶For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
¹¹I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. (2 Cor. 12:6,11)

;

Acts 26:24‑25• ²⁴And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
²⁵But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. (Acts 26:24‑25)

;

1 Cor. 4:10‑13• ¹⁰We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
¹¹Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
¹²And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
¹³Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. (1 Cor. 4:10‑13)

;

1 Thess. 2:3‑11• ³For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
⁴But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
⁵For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
⁶Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
⁷But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
⁸So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
¹⁰Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
¹¹As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, (1 Thess. 2:3‑11)

it is to.

2 Sam. 6:21‑22• ²¹And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
²²And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honor. (2 Sam. 6:21‑22)

sober.

Acts 26:25• ²⁵But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. (Acts 26:25)

;

Rom. 12:3• ³For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Rom. 12:3)

for.

2 Cor. 7:12• ¹²Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. (2 Cor. 7:12)

;

Col. 1:24• ²⁴Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: (Col. 1:24)

;

1 Thess. 1:5• ⁵For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. (1 Thess. 1:5)

;

2 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:10)

• Cold is the heart that knows no rapture before God as one thinks of His grace in Christ. Such certainly was not the Apostle Paul's case, as we may see in many a doxology which interrupts a chain of closest reasoning...But the same Paul can come down to the most ordinary questions of daily walk, can regulate the relations of husband and wife, or of master and slave, can prescribe for a weakly man, and check a woman's taste for dress. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:12-15” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

+

13

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to Godb; or are sober, it is for you.

JND Translation Notes

+

b

Or "for God"; that is, he was as a fool for God's glory. But the sense is, I think, "If he lost the blessed calculations of love which was his path towards men, it was to be out of himself with God, and for God." a blessed alternative. His ecstasy was not excitement or folly, but if out of himself it was with God; if sober, it was the calculation of love for their good.

W. Kelly Translation

+

13

For whether we werea beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

WK Translation Notes

+

a

Or, "are." The sobriety was continuous.