2 Corinthians 11:11

Myles Coverdale Bible

Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.

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.

Bible in Basic English
Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

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!

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 I suppose that I am no lesse the the hye Apostles are. ⁶ And though I be rude in speakynge, yet am I not rude in knowlege. Howbeit amoge you I am knowne to the vttemost. ⁷ Or dyd I synne therin because I submytted my selfe, that ye mighte be exalted?For I preached vnto you the Gospell of God frely, ⁸ and robbed other cogregacions, and toke wages of the, to preach vnto you. ⁹ And whan I was present with you, and had nede, I was greuous to no man: for yt which was lackynge vnto me, the brethren which came fro Macedonia, suppleed. And in all thinges I kepte myselfe so, yt I shulde not be greuous to you, & so wyl I kepe my selfe. ¹⁰ As surely as the trueth of Christ is in me, this reioysinge shal not be taken fro me in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth. ¹² Neuertheles what I do and wyl do, that do I to cut awaye occasion, from the which seke occasion, that they mighte boast the selues to be like vnto vs. ¹³ For soch false Apostles & disceatfull workers fashion them selues like vnto the Apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And that is no maruell: for Sathan himfelfe is chaunged in to ye fashion of an angell 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 blessed them, and sayde vnto them: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the earth, and subdue it, & haue domynion ouer the fish of the see, and ouer the foules of the ayre, and ouer all the beastes that crepe vpo the earth.

Genesis 9:7
As for you, be ye frutefull, and increase, and be occupied vpon the earth, that ye maye multiplye therin.

Genesis 11:3
& saide one to another: Come on, let vs make bryck & burne it. And they toke bryck for stone, & slyme for morter,

Genesis 11:4
And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes.

Genesis 11:32
And Terah was two hundreth & fyue yeare olde, and dyed in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
That or sonnes maye growe vp as the yoge plantes, and that oure doughters maye be as the polished corners of the temple.

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.