2 Corinthians 6:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [We are treated] as unknown and ignored [by the world], and [yet we are] well-known and recognized [by God and His people]; as dying, and yet here we are alive; as chastened by suffering and [yet] not killed; American Standard Version (1901) as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; Common English Bible as unknown and well known, as dying—and look, we are alive! We were seen as punished but not killed, Catholic Public Domain Version as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As dying, and behold we live; as chastised, and not killed; |
Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
Instead, they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died but whom Paul asserted to be alive.
But I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write,
by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you—a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.
Even if I am untrained in speech, I certainly am not with respect to knowledge; certainly in every way and in all things we have made this evident to you.
We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.