2 Corinthians 4:5
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.In other versions
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
ASV
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
BBE
For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.
DBY
For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
WEB
for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
YLT
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
ENG
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
WBT
For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
BSB
In context
3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Jesus