2 Corinthians 1:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Not that we have dominion [over you] and lord it over your faith, but [rather that we work with you as] fellow laborers [to promote] your joy, for in [your] faith (in your strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through Whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God) you stand firm.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.

Common English Bible

²⁴ It isn’t that we are trying to control your faith, but we are working with you for your happiness, because you stand firm in your faith.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ not because we have dominion over your faith, but because we are assistants of your joy. For by faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 1:24 Cross References

1 Peter 5:3

Do not lord it over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand,

2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.

Romans 11:20

That is true. They were broken off on account of unbelief, but you stand on account of belief. So do not become arrogant, but be afraid.

Romans 5:2

through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

Matthew 24:49

and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards,

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

Romans 1:12

or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.