2 Corinthians 4:5 Parallel Translations

Our message is not about ourselves. It is about Jesus Christ as the Lord. We are your servants for his sake.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

ASV:

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus'sake.

BBE:

For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

DBY:

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

ERV:

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

WEY:

WBS:

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

WEB:

For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

YLT:

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

2 Corinthians 4:5 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 4:15 For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

1 Thessalonians 2:6 nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:5 {3} For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for {f} Jesus' sake.
(3) He removes according to his accustomed manner, all suspicion of ambition, affirming that he teaches faithfully, but as a servant, and witnessing that all this light which he and his associates give to others, proceeds from the Lord.
(f) To preach this self same Jesus to you.

PNT:

4:5 We preach not ourselves. We have no self-seeking sins in preaching, but only seek to preach Christ Jesus, the Lord. We know that Paul's preaching was perverted by his detractors. He called on the disciples to follow him as he followed Christ (1Co 11:1 4:16 7:6), and they asserted that he preached himself. Instead he made himself the servant of all for Christ's sake (1Co 9:19).

WES:

4:5 For - The fault is not in us, neither in the doctrine they hear from us. We preach not ourselves - As able either to enlighten, or pardon, or sanctify you. But Jesus Christ - As your only wisdom, righteousness, sanctification. And ourselves your servants - Ready to do the meanest offices. For Jesus' sake - Not for honour, interest, or pleasure.

MHC:

4:1-7 The best of men would faint, if they did not receive mercy from God. And that mercy which has helped us out, and helped us on, hitherto, we may rely upon to help us even to the end. The apostles had no base and wicked designs, covered with fair and specious pretences. They did not try to make their ministry serve a turn. Sincerity or uprightness will keep the favourable opinion of wise and good men. Christ by his gospel makes a glorious discovery to the minds of men. But the design of the devil is, to keep men in ignorance; and when he cannot keep the light of the gospel of Christ out of the world, he spares no pains to keep men from the gospel, or to set them against it. The rejection of the gospel is here traced to the wilful blindness and wickedness of the human heart. Self was not the matter or the end of the apostles' preaching; they preached Christ as Jesus, the Saviour and Deliverer, who saves to the uttermost all that come to God through him. Ministers are servants to the souls of men; they must avoid becoming servants to the humours or the lusts of men. It is pleasant to behold the sun in the firmament; but it is more pleasant and profitable for the gospel to shine in the heart. As light was the beginning of the first creation; so, in the new creation, the light of the Spirit is his first work upon the soul. The treasure of gospel light and grace is put into earthen vessels. The ministers of the gospel are subject to the same passions and weaknesses as other men. God could have sent angels to make known the glorious doctrine of the gospel, or could have sent the most admired sons of men to teach the nations, but he chose humbler, weaker vessels, that his power might be more glorified in upholding them, and in the blessed change wrought by their ministry.

CONC:

Bondmen Bond-servants Christ Ourselves Preach Preaching Sake Servants

Bondmen Bond-Servants Christ Jesus Ourselves Preach Preaching Sake Servants

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