Parallel Verses
- Amplified Bible - But I call on God as my soul’s witness, that it was to spare you [pain and discouragement] that I did not come again to Corinth—
- 新标点和合本 - 我呼吁 神给我的心作见证，我没有往哥林多去是为要宽容你们。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我指着我的性命求告上帝作证，我没有再往哥林多去是为了要宽容你们。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我指着我的性命求告 神作证，我没有再往哥林多去是为了要宽容你们。
- 当代译本 - 我求上帝为我做见证：我没有去哥林多，是为了宽容你们。
- 圣经新译本 - 我呼求 神给我作证，我没有再到哥林多来，是要宽容你们。
- 中文标准译本 - 我求告神为我的灵魂见证：我没有再往哥林多去，是因为顾惜你们。
- 现代标点和合本 - 我呼吁神给我的心作见证，我没有往哥林多去是为要宽容你们。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 我呼吁上帝给我的心作见证，我没有往哥林多去是为要宽容你们。
- New International Version - I call God as my witness—and I stake my life on it—that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
- New International Reader's Version - I call God to be my witness. May he take my life if I’m lying. I wanted to spare you, so I didn’t return to Corinth.
- English Standard Version - But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
- New Living Translation - Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn’t return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.
- The Message - Now, are you ready for the real reason I didn’t visit you in Corinth? As God is my witness, the only reason I didn’t come was to spare you pain. I was being considerate of you, not indifferent, not manipulative.
- Christian Standard Bible - I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.
- New American Standard Bible - But I call God as witness to my soul, that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.
- New King James Version - Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
- American Standard Version - But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
- King James Version - Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
- New English Translation - Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
- World English Bible - But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
- 新標點和合本 - 我呼籲神給我的心作見證，我沒有往哥林多去是為要寬容你們。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我指着我的性命求告上帝作證，我沒有再往哥林多去是為了要寬容你們。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我指着我的性命求告 神作證，我沒有再往哥林多去是為了要寬容你們。
- 當代譯本 - 我求上帝為我作見證：我沒有去哥林多，是為了寬容你們。
- 聖經新譯本 - 我呼求 神給我作證，我沒有再到哥林多來，是要寬容你們。
- 呂振中譯本 - 我指着我的性命呼求上帝作證，我沒有再往 哥林多 去、是顧惜你們。
- 中文標準譯本 - 我求告神為我的靈魂見證：我沒有再往哥林多去，是因為顧惜你們。
- 現代標點和合本 - 我呼籲神給我的心作見證，我沒有往哥林多去是為要寬容你們。
- 文理和合譯本 - 我籲上帝以我心作證、我不適哥林多者、寬容爾也、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 我籲上帝鑒吾心、為不爾責、故不至哥林多、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我不復至 哥林多 、惟因寛容爾曹、我籲天主為我心作證、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 吾呼天主為證、吾之所以未來 格林多 者、乃為爾等着想、不欲予爾等以難堪耳。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - ¡Por mi vida! Pongo a Dios por testigo de que todavía no he ido a Corinto solo por consideración a ustedes.
- 현대인의 성경 - 내가 하나님을 증인으로 세워 말하지만 내가 고린도에 가지 않은 것은 여러분을 아끼는 마음에서입니다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Бог свидетель того, что лишь жалея вас, я до сих пор не приходил с наказанием в Коринф.
- Восточный перевод - Всевышний свидетель того, что лишь жалея вас, я до сих пор не приходил с наказанием в Коринф.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Аллах свидетель того, что лишь жалея вас, я до сих пор не приходил с наказанием в Коринф.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Всевышний свидетель того, что лишь жалея вас, я до сих пор не приходил с наказанием в Коринф.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pourquoi donc ne suis-je pas encore revenu à Corinthe ? J’en prends Dieu à témoin sur ma vie : c’est parce que je voulais vous ménager ;
- リビングバイブル - この神に証人となっていただいて、少しの偽りもない真実を述べましょう。私がまだあなたがたを訪問しないでいるのは、信仰に関してきびしくしかりつけて、悲しい思いをさせたくないからです。
- Nestle Aland 28 - Ἐγὼ δὲ μάρτυρα τὸν θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι ἦλθον εἰς Κόρινθον.
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἐγὼ δὲ μάρτυρα τὸν Θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι ἦλθον εἰς Κόρινθον.
- Nova Versão Internacional - Invoco a Deus como testemunha de que foi a fim de poupá-los que não voltei a Corinto.
- Hoffnung für alle - Warum bin ich dann nicht wie geplant nach Korinth gekommen? Ich rufe Gott als Zeugen an; er soll mich strafen, wenn ich nicht die Wahrheit sage: Es geschah nur, um euch zu schonen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Xin Đức Chúa Trời làm chứng cho tôi, sở dĩ tôi chưa đến Cô-rinh-tô thăm anh chị em vì muốn anh chị em khỏi bị khiển trách nặng nề.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ข้าพเจ้าขออ้างพระเจ้าให้ทรงเป็นพยานแก่ข้าพเจ้าว่า ที่ขากลับข้าพเจ้าไม่ได้มาเมืองโครินธ์ก็เพื่องดเว้นโทษพวกท่านไว้ก่อน
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ข้าพเจ้าขอให้พระเจ้าผู้รู้อย่างลึกซึ้งถึงจิตใจเป็นพยานว่า ที่ข้าพเจ้าไม่ได้กลับมายังเมืองโครินธ์ก็เพื่อท่านจะได้ไม่ต้องลำบาก
Cross Reference
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5 - For as you well know, we never came with words of flattery nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—
- 2 Corinthians 11:11 - Why? Because I do not love you [or wish you well, or have regard for your welfare]? God knows [that I do]!
- 2 Corinthians 12:20 - For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;
- Romans 9:1 - I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit,
- 2 Corinthians 10:2 - I ask that when I do come I will not be driven to the boldness that I intend to show toward those few who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh [like men without the Spirit].
- 1 Timothy 1:20 - Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be disciplined and taught not to blaspheme.
- 2 Corinthians 2:1 - But I made up my mind not to grieve you with another painful visit.
- 2 Corinthians 2:2 - For if I cause you grief [by a well-deserved rebuke], who then provides me enjoyment but the very one whom I have made sad?
- 2 Corinthians 2:3 - And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not be filled with sorrow by those who ought to make me glad, for I trusted in you and felt confident that my joy would be shared by all of you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:6 - being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.
- 2 Corinthians 10:7 - You are looking [only] at the outward appearance of things. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, he should reflect and consider this, that just as he is Christ’s, so too are we.
- 2 Corinthians 10:8 - For even though I boast rather freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed [of the truth],
- 2 Corinthians 10:9 - nor do I want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters;
- 2 Corinthians 10:10 - for they say, “His letters are weighty and forceful and impressive, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible [of no account].”
- 2 Corinthians 10:11 - Let such people realize that what we say by word in letters when we are absent, is the same as what we are in action when present.
- 2 Corinthians 11:31 - The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed and to be praised forevermore, knows that I am not lying.
- 2 Corinthians 1:18 - But [as surely as] God is faithful and means what He says, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No” [at the same time].
- 1 Corinthians 5:5 - you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- Philippians 1:8 - For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus [whose great love fills me].
- 2 Corinthians 13:2 - I have already warned those who have sinned in the past and all the rest as well, and I warn them now even though I am absent [from you] as I did when I was with you the second time, that if I come back I will not spare anyone,
- 2 Corinthians 13:10 - For this reason I am writing these things while absent from you, so that when I come, I will not need to deal severely [with you], in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me [to be used] for building you up and not for tearing you down.
- Galatians 1:20 - (Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you as if I were standing before God that I am not lying.)
- 1 Corinthians 4:21 - Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod [of discipline and correction], or with love and a gentle spirit?
- Romans 1:9 - For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how continuously I mention you