5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.


In Context

2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In 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.

5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

6 For 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.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 4:5 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord; and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus'sake.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus — Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.