2 Corinthians 4:5
2 Corinthians chapter 4 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
Context
v.4in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
v.5This passage
v.6Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.
- Acts 14:11
And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3
Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 10:25
And when it came to pass that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
- 2 Corinthians 1:19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.