2 Corinthians 5:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

Common English Bible

¹¹ So we try to persuade people, since we know what it means to fear the Lord. We are well known by God, and I hope that in your heart we are well known by you as well.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Therefore, having knowledge of the fear of the Lord, we appeal to men, but we are made manifest before God. Yet I hope, too, that we may be made manifest in your consciences.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men; but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.

2 Corinthians 5:11 Cross References

Genesis 35:5

And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

Job 31:23

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Psalm 73:19

How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

Psalm 76:7

But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?

Psalm 90:11

Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand which the Lord of hosts shakes over them.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 25:46

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Luke 12:5

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear him!

Luke 16:31

He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.’ ”

Acts 13:43

And when the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 18:13

saying, “This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Acts 18:4

And he argued in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Acts 26:26

For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

Acts 28:23

When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he expounded the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

2 Corinthians 2:17

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.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

Ephesians 5:21

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 12:29

for our God is a consuming fire.

Jude 1:23

save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Revelation 20:15

and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.