2 Corinthians 12:19 Parallel Translations

All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved. (NASB ©1995)

GWT:

Have you been thinking all along that we're trying to defend ourselves to you? We speak as Christ's people in God's sight. Everything we do, dear friends, is for your benefit.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

ASV:

Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

BBE:

It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

DBY:

Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.

ERV:

Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

WEY:

You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.

WBS:

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

WEB:

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

YLT:

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

2 Corinthians 12:19 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 9:1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

Romans 14:19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 10:8 For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

12:19 {7} Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in {n} Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
(7) He concludes that he does not write these things to them as though he needed to defend himself, for he is guilty of nothing: but because it is appropriate for them to doubt nothing of his fidelity, who instructed them.
(n) As it becomes him to speak truly and sincerely, that professes himself to be in Christ, that is to say, to be a Christian.

PNT:

12:19 Think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? He must guard against a misapprehension. He is not defending himself before a human bar.
We speak before God in Christ. He speaks as before God.
[We do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. Says what will tend to edify them. His only object is to build them up.

WES:

12:19 Think ye that we again excuse ourselves - That I speak this for my own sake? No. I speak all this for your sakes.

MHC:

12:11-21 We owe it to good men, to stand up in the defence of their reputation; and we are under special obligations to those from whom we have received benefit, especially spiritual benefit, to own them as instruments in God's hand of good to us. Here is an account of the apostle's behaviour and kind intentions; in which see the character of a faithful minister of the gospel. This was his great aim and design, to do good. Here are noticed several sins commonly found among professors of religion. Falls and misdeeds are humbling to a minister; and God sometimes takes this way to humble those who might be tempted to be lifted up. These vast verses show to what excesses the false teachers had drawn aside their deluded followers. How grievous it is that such evils should be found among professors of the gospel! Yet thus it is, and has been too often, and it was so even in the days of the apostles.

CONC:

Actually Along Attempting Bar Beloved Brothers Building Christ Communion Dear Dearly Defence Defending Defense Edification Edifying Excuse Excusing Friends God's Goodness Imagining Making Ourselves Presence Profit Progress Reality Saying Seem Sight Speak Speaking Strengthening Supposing Thinking Upbuilding Up-building View

Attempting Bar Beloved Building Christ Communion Dear Dearly Defence Defense Edification Edifying Excuse Excusing Friends God's Imagining Making Ourselves Presence Profit Progress Reality Right Seem Sight Speak Strengthening Supposing Think Time View

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