2 Corinthians 5:13

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 29:26

'The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada, the priest, so that you would be the ruler in the house of the Lord over every man who raves and prophesies, to send him to the stocks and to prison.

Mark 3:21

And when his own had heard of it, they went out to take hold of him. For they said: "Because he has gone mad."

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace that has been given to me, to all who are among you: Taste no more than it is necessary to taste, but taste unto sobriety and just as God has distributed a share of the faith to each one.

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:6

For even though I am willing to glory, I will not be foolish. But I will speak the truth. Yet I will do so sparingly, lest anyone may consider me to be anything more than what he sees in me, or anything more than what he hears from me.

2 Corinthians 7:12

And so, though I wrote to you, it was not because of him who caused the injury, nor because of him who suffered from it, but so as to manifest our solicitude, which we have for you before God.

Colossians 1:24

For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.

2 Timothy 2:10

I endure all things for this reason: for the sake of the elect, so that they, too, may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.