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2 Corinthians 4:14

What does 2 Corinthians 4:14 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Corinthians 4:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What 2 Corinthians 4:14 means

Paul’s courage rests on the certainty that the God who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise him and present him together with the Corinthians. The resurrection of Jesus is both model and guarantee. Death does not have the final word over Christ’s servants. This hope binds Paul to the believers he serves: they will stand together before God, upheld by the same grace. The future presentation energizes present endurance, shaping how Paul evaluates suffering. Faced with threats, he remembers that the empty tomb defines reality; thus he can keep laboring, knowing that God’s resurrection power will complete what He has begun.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.

Context

Connected to the faith that speaks (verse 13), this verse anchors that faith in the resurrection. It undergirds Paul’s willingness to suffer, explaining the boldness seen throughout the chapter. From this hope, the argument broadens in verse 15 to show how Paul’s hardships serve others: as grace spreads to more people, thanksgiving multiplies to God’s glory. The flow widens from personal assurance to communal benefit and doxology.

v.13But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;

v.14This passage

v.15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 2:24

    whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1

    For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:14

    For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

  • Colossians 1:22

    yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

  • 1 Corinthians 6:14

    and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.

  • Romans 8:11

    But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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