2 Corinthians 11:2 — Compare Translations

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For I am zealous for you with a godly eagerness and a divine jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one Husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Hos. 2:19, 20.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For I am zealous for you with a godly eagerness and a divine jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one Husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Hos. 2:19, 20.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure virgin to Christ.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.

English EASY 2024

God wants to keep you for himself. And that is what I want too. I have brought you to Christ, like a pure bride who marries one husband. I want you to be pure and to belong only to him.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I am jealous for you with a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ. He must be your only husband. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride.

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.

English God's Word - GW 1995

I'm as protective of you as God is. After all, you're a virgin whom I promised in marriage to one man—Christ.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband-- to present a pure virgin to Christ.

English KJV 1611

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

English LSB

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, for I betrothed you to one husband, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My jealousy for you comes from God himself. I promised to give you to only one husband. That husband is Christ. I wanted to be able to give you to him as if you were a pure virgin.

English NIV

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

English NKJ 1982

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

English NLT

I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. For I promised you as a pure bride to one husband, Christ.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

You need to know that God’s passion is burning inside me for you, because, like a loving father, I have pledged your hand in marriage to Christ, your true bridegroom. I’ve also promised that I would present his fiancée to him as a pure virgin bride.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

I am anxious for you with the deep concern of God himself—anxious that your love should be for Christ alone, just as a pure maiden saves her love for one man only, for the one who will be her husband.

English Tyndale 1537

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I coupled(have married) you to one man, to make you(to bring) a chaste virgin to Christ: