2 Corinthians 2:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God's Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ We aren’t like so many people who hustle the word of God to make a profit. We are speaking through Christ in the presence of God, as those who are sincere and as those who are sent from God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For we are not like many others, adulterating the Word of God. But instead, we speak with sincerity: from God, before God, and in Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:17 Krydshenvisninger

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Matthew 24:24

For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 20:20

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 1:18

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.

2 Corinthians 11:11

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

2 Corinthians 12:19

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 6:7

truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;

Galatians 1:6

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel—

1 Thessalonians 2:4

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for base gain what they have no right to teach.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

1 Peter 4:11

whoever speaks, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Jude 1:4

For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.