2 Corinthians 6:9 - Tree of Life Version as unknown and yet well-known; as dying, yet behold, we live; as disciplined yet not put to death; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [We are treated] as unknown and ignored [by the world], and [yet we are] well-known and recognized [by God and His people]; as dying, and yet here we are alive; as chastened by suffering and [yet] not killed; American Standard Version (1901) as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; Common English Bible as unknown and well known, as dying—and look, we are alive! We were seen as punished but not killed, Catholic Public Domain Version as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As dying, and behold we live; as chastised, and not killed; |
Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What’s this babbler trying to say?” while others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was proclaiming the Good News of Yeshua and the resurrection.
You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but also throughout all Asia, Paul has persuaded and perverted a considerable crowd, saying that handmade gods are not gods at all.
Instead, they had certain issues with him about their own religion and about a certain Yeshua, who had died, whom Paul claimed to be alive.
Yet I have nothing specific to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you—and especially before you, King Agrippa—so that after the investigation has taken place, I might have something to write.
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem and around even to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the Good News of Messiah.
As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
But when we are judged, we are being disciplined by the Lord so that we might not be condemned along with the world.
I die every day—yes, as surely as the boast in you, brothers and sisters, which I have in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.
Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation of the truth.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we are trying to persuade people, but what we are is known to God—and I hope it is known to your consciences as well.