2 Corinthians 11:11

Bible in Basic English

Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do!

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

King James Version
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

English Standard Version
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

New American Standard Bible
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

New Century Version
And why do I not depend on you? Do you think it is because I do not love you? God knows that I love you.

Amplified Bible
Why? Because I do not love you [or wish you well, or have regard for your welfare]? God knows [that I do]!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Legacy Standard Bible
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Berean Standard Bible
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Contemporary English Version
And it isn't because I don't love you. God himself knows how much I do love you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Why won't I ever accept your support? Is it that I don't love you? God knows I do!

Darby Translation
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

Easy-to-Read Version
And why do I not burden you? Do you think it is because I don't love you? God knows that I love you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

George Lamsa Translation
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do love you.

Good News Translation
Do I say this because I don't love you? God knows I love you!

Lexham English Bible
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Literal Translation
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

American Standard Version
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

Hebrew Names Version
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

International Standard Version
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!2 Corinthians 6:11; 7:3; 12:15;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Why ? because I love you not ? Aloha himself knoweth !

Murdock Translation
Why? Because I do not love you? God knoweth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore? Because I loue you not? God knoweth.

English Revised Version
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

World English Bible
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore?

Weymouth's New Testament
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi? for Y loue not you?

Update Bible Version
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

Webster's Bible Translation
Why? because I love you not? God knoweth.

New English Translation
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

New King James Version
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!

New Living Translation
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows that I do.

New Life Bible
Does it mean I do not love you? God knows I do.

New Revised Standard
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore? Because I love you not? God, knoweth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

Revised Standard Version
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore? Be cause I love you not? God knoweth.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.

Mace New Testament (1729)
why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Why did I do it? Why did I work so hard without being a burden? Do you think it's because I don't care about y'all? Only God knows how much I love y'all.

Contextual Overview

⁵ For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles. ⁶ But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you. ⁷ Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward? ⁸ I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant; ⁹ And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so. ¹⁰ As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge. ¹² But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are. ¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

because: 2 Corinthians 6:11, 2 Corinthians 6:12, 2 Corinthians 7:3, 2 Corinthians 12:15

God: 2 Corinthians 11:10, 2 Corinthians 12:2, 2 Corinthians 12:3, Joshua 22:22, Psalms 44:21, John 2:24, John 2:25, John 21:17, Acts 15:8, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:21 - I will know Judges 11:27 - be judge 2 Chronicles 18:22 - the lord hath Romans 1:9 - God 1 Corinthians 4:14 - my 1 Corinthians 10:14 - my 1 Corinthians 16:24 - love 2 Corinthians 1:23 - I call 2 Corinthians 3:2 - in 2 Corinthians 6:6 - love 2 Corinthians 7:12 - that our Galatians 1:20 - behold Colossians 2:4 - lest 1 Thessalonians 2:10 - witnesses Hebrews 13:9 - carried

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

Genesis 9:7
And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.

Genesis 11:32
And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore? because I love you not?.... Why did the apostle do this? why did he take nothing, and resolve to take nothing of the Corinthians, for preaching the Gospel to them? why did he determine, that no man should prevent his glorying of this, in all the country of Achaia? was it because he did not love the Corinthians? some might insinuate this was the reason of it, that he had no true affection for them, and therefore would take none of their gifts, but despised both them and theirs, and loved the Macedonian and other churches better than they. To which he answers by saying,

God knoweth; which is another form of an oath, and is a solemn appeal to God, the searcher of hearts, who knows all things, that he knew he heartily loved them; that it was not want of love to them, which was the reason of his entering into such a resolution, never to take anything of them; but it was something else, quite another thing, which induced him to it, and is mentioned in the following verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore ... - It is not because I do not love you. It is not from pride, or because I would not as willingly receive aid from you as from any other. It is not because I am more unwilling to be under obligation to you than to others. I have a deep and tender attachment to you; but it is because I can thus best promote the gospel and advance the kingdom of the Redeemer. Possibly it might have been thought that his unwillingness to receive aid from them was some proof of reserve toward them or lack of affection, and this may have been urged against him. This he solemnly denies.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 11:11. Wherefore — Why have I acted thus? and why do I propose to continue to act thus? is it because I love you not, and will not permit you to contribute to my support? God knoweth the contrary; I do most affectionately love you.