2 Corinthians 11:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² For I am jealous for you with a jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband, to present you as an innocent maiden to Messiah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For I am zealous for you with a godly eagerness and a divine jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one Husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Hos. 2:19, 20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Common English Bible

² I’m deeply concerned about you with the same concern that God has. As your father, I promised you in marriage to one husband. I promised to present you as an innocent virgin to Christ himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:2 Cross References

Isaiah 54:5

“For your Maker is your husband, יהוה of hosts is His Name, and the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of all the earth.

Ezekiel 44:22

“And they do not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take maidens of the seed of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or widows of priests.

John 3:29

“He that has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. So this joy of mine is complete.

Romans 7:4

So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Messiah, yet not many fathers, for in Messiah יהושע I have brought you forth through the Good News.

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that He who raised up the Master יהושע shall also raise us up through יהושע, and shall present us with you.

Galatians 4:11

I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.

Philippians 1:8

For Elohim is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of יהושע Messiah.

Colossians 1:28

whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order to present every man perfect in Messiah יהושע,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

even as you know how each one of you, as a father to his children, encouraging and comforting and bearing witness to you,

Revelation 14:4

They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He leads them on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb.