2 Corinthians 4:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Indeed, everything is for your sake, so that grace, when it has extended to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For all [these] things are [taking place] for your sake, so that the more grace (divine favor and spiritual blessing) extends to more and more people and multiplies through the many, the more thanksgiving may increase [and redound] to the glory of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

Common English Bible

All these things are for your benefit. As grace increases to benefit more and more people, it will cause gratitude to increase, which results in God’s glory.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thus, all is for you, so that grace, abounding through many in thanksgiving, may abound to the glory of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 4:15 Cross References

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 50:23

Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way, I will show the salvation of God.”

Romans 8:28

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 9:19

For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more.

2 Corinthians 1:11

as you also join in helping us by your prayers, so that many may give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

2 Corinthians 8:19

and not only that, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us while we are administering this generous undertaking for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our goodwill.

Galatians 1:24

And they glorified God because of me.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

1 Timothy 1:14

and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:10

Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God; whoever serves must do so with the strength that God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.