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2 Cor. 5:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For whether we be besidea ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

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2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17• ¹Would that ye might bear with me in some little folly; but even bear with me.
¹⁶Again I say, let not one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also may boast some little.
¹⁷What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting. (2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17)

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2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17• ¹Would that ye might bear with me in some little folly; but even bear with me.
¹⁶Again I say, let not one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also may boast some little.
¹⁷What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting. (2 Cor. 11:1,16‑17)

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2 Cor. 12:6,11• ⁶For if I should desire to boast, I shall not be foolish, for I shall speak truth; but I forbear, lest any should account as to me above that which he seeth me or heareth of me.
¹¹I am become foolish, ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I behind those surpassing apostles if also I am nothing. (2 Cor. 12:6,11)

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Acts 26:24‑25• ²⁴And as he thus defended himself, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad: much learning doth turn thee to madness.
²⁵But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but speak forth words of truth and soberness. (Acts 26:24‑25)

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1 Cor. 4:10‑13• ¹⁰we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
¹¹Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
¹²and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
¹³slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:10‑13)

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1 Thess. 2:3‑11• ³For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;
⁴but even as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God that proveth our hearts.
⁵For neither at any time were we with speech of flattery, as ye know, nor with a cloke of covetousness, God [is] witness;
⁶nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ.
⁷But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children;
⁸so yearning over you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls because ye became beloved by us.
⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and our toil; working night and day that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
¹⁰Ye [are] witnesses, and God, how holily and righteously and blamelessly we behaved ourselves to you that believe;
¹¹just as ye know how each one of you as a father his own children, we [were] exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying (1 Thess. 2:3‑11)

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2 Sam. 6:21‑22• (2 Sam. 6:21‑22)

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Acts 26:25• ²⁵But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but speak forth words of truth and soberness. (Acts 26:25)

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Rom. 12:3• ³For through the grace of God that is given to me, I say to everyone that is among you not to be high-minded above what he ought to be minded, but to be minded to sober-mindedness as God to each hath dealt a measure of faith. (Rom. 12:3)

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2 Cor. 7:12• ¹²Wherefore, if also I wrote, [it was] not for the sake of him that wronged, nor for his sake that was wronged, but for the sake of your diligence for us c being manifested unto you before God. (2 Cor. 7:12)

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Col. 1:24• ²⁴who now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up what is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly, (Col. 1:24)

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1 Thess. 1:5• ⁵because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in [the] Holy Spirit and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sake. (1 Thess. 1:5)

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2 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation, that [is] in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:10)

• Cold is the heart that knows no rapture before God as one thinks of His grace in Christ. Such certainly was not the Apostle Paul's case, as we may see in many a doxology which interrupts a chain of closest reasoning...But the same Paul can come down to the most ordinary questions of daily walk, can regulate the relations of husband and wife, or of master and slave, can prescribe for a weakly man, and check a woman's taste for dress. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:12-15” by W. Kelly)

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For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to Godb; or are sober, it is for you.

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Or "for God"; that is, he was as a fool for God's glory. But the sense is, I think, "If he lost the blessed calculations of love which was his path towards men, it was to be out of himself with God, and for God." a blessed alternative. His ecstasy was not excitement or folly, but if out of himself it was with God; if sober, it was the calculation of love for their good.

W. Kelly Translation

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For whether we werea beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

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Or, "are." The sobriety was continuous.