2 Corinthians 11:31
New International Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.

New Living Translation
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who is worthy of eternal praise, knows I am not lying.

English Standard Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Berean Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

Berean Literal Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying.

King James Bible
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

New King James Version
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

New American Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

NASB 1995
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

NASB 1977
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Legacy Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Amplified Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed and to be praised forevermore, knows that I am not lying.

Christian Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is praised forever, knows I am not lying.

American Standard Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God The Father of our Lord Yeshua The Messiah, blessed to the eternity of eternities, knows that I do not lie.

Contemporary English Version
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, knows I am not lying. And God is to be praised forever!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

English Revised Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is praised forever, knows that I'm not lying.

Good News Translation
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus--blessed be his name forever!--knows that I am not lying.

International Standard Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Literal Standard Version
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—who is blessed for all ages—has known that I do not lie!

Majority Standard Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

New American Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows, he who is blessed forever, that I do not lie.

NET Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

New Revised Standard Version
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus (blessed be he forever!) knows that I do not lie.

New Heart English Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie.

Webster's Bible Translation
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

Weymouth New Testament
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed throughout the Ages--knows that I am speaking the truth.

World English Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

Young's Literal Translation
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Paul's Suffering and Service
30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying. 32In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.…

Cross References
Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Galatians 1:20
I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.


Treasury of Scripture

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for ever more, knows that I lie not.

God.

2 Corinthians 1:3,23
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; …

John 10:30
I and my Father are one.

John 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

which.

Nehemiah 9:5
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Psalm 41:13
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

knoweth.

2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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2 Corinthians 11
1. Out of his jealousy over the Corinthians, he enters into a forced commendation of himself,
5. of his equality with the chief apostles,
7. of his preaching the gospel to them freely, and without any charge to them;
13. showing that he was not inferior to those deceitful workers in any legal prerogative;
23. and in the service of Christ, and in all kinds of sufferings for his ministry, far superior.














(31) The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.--The solemn attestation was, we may believe, a natural introduction to what was possibly intended, as the words passed from his lips, to be the beginning of a much fuller narrative than that which was its actual outcome.

Which is blessed for evermore.--The Greek has no conjunction, but its force is best given either by which is, and is blessed for evermore, or, by an emphasis of punctuation and the insertion of a verb, which is: blessed is He for evermore. The Greek participle is not a single predicate of blessedness, such as the English expresses, but is that constantly used in the LXX. version as the equivalent of the Hebrew name for Jehovah: "He that is," the "I AM" of Exodus 3:13-14; Jeremiah 14:13; and in a later and probably contemporary work, not translated from the Hebrew, in Wisdom Of Solomon 13:1 ("they could not . . . know Him that is"). So Philo, in like manner, speaks of "He that is" as a received name of God. (See also Notes on John 8:58-59; Romans 9:5.) . . .

Verse 31. - The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This solemn asseveration does not seem to be retrospective. It is used to preface what was perhaps intended to be a definite sketch of the most perilous incidents and trials of his life, which would have been to us of inestimable value. This awful attestation of his truthfulness was necessary,

(1) because even the very little which we do know shows us that the tale would have been "passing strange;" and

(2) because his base and shameless calumniators had evidently insinuated that he was not straightforward (2 Corinthians 12:16). (On the phrases used, see 2 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 1:3.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
The
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

God
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Father
Πατὴρ (Patēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

of the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Lord
Κυρίου (Kyriou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

Jesus,
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

is
ὢν (ōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

forever
αἰῶνας (aiōnas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period.

worthy of praise,
εὐλογητὸς (eulogētos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2128: (used only of God), blessed (as entitled to receive blessing from man), worthy of praise. From eulogeo; adorable.

knows
οἶδεν (oiden)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

that
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

I am not lying.
ψεύδομαι (pseudomai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 5574: To deceive, lie, speak falsely. Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to utter an untruth or attempt to deceive by falsehood.


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