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2 Corinthians 5:13

For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

KJV

εἴτε γὰρ ἐξέστημεν, θεῷ· εἴτε σωφρονοῦμεν, ὑμῖν.

Greek NT

Sive enim mente excedimus Deo : sive sobrii sumus, vobis.

Vulgate

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

ASV

For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for you.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἴτε
eite
conjunction · 65×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
σωφρονέω
sophroneo
verb · 6×
ἐξίστημι
existemi
verb · 17×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:10 — We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
  • 2Cor 11:1 — Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
  • 2Cor 11:1 — Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
  • 2Cor 11:16 — I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
  • 2Cor 12:6 — For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
  • 2Cor 12:11 — I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
  • 2Tim 1:7 — For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
  • Acts 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
  • Acts 26:24 — And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
  • Hos 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
  • Jer 20:9 — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay
  • Mark 3:21 — And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
  • Rom 12:3 — For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man t
  • Titus 2:2 — That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.