2 Corinthians 5:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and collar.

Mark 3:21

And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, “He is beside himself.”

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:6

Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears 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 revealed to you in the sight of God.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

1 Thessalonians 1:5

for our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

2 Timothy 2:10

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