2 Corinthians 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For if we are beside ourselves [mad, as some say], it is for God and concerns Him; if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

Common English Bible

¹³ If we are crazy, it’s for God’s sake. If we are rational, it’s for your sake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For if we are excessive in mind, it is for God; but if we are sober, it is for you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 5:13 Cross References

Jeremiah 29:26

The Lord himself has made you priest instead of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be officers in the house of the Lord to control any madman who plays the prophet, to put him in the stocks and the collar.

Mark 3:21

When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish you would put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, do put up with me!

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:6

But if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me,

2 Corinthians 7:12

So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong but in order that your zeal for us might be made known to you before God.

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 Thessalonians 1:5

because our message of the gospel came to you not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of persons we proved to be among you for your sake.

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.