2 Corinthians 11:11

Amplified Bible

Why? Because I do not love you [or wish you well, or have regard for your welfare]? God knows [that I do]!

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.

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!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.

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

⁵Yet I consider myself in no way inferior to the [so-called] super-apostles. ⁶But even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am not [untrained] in knowledge [I know what I am talking about]; but we have made this evident to you in every way, in all things. ⁷Or did I [perhaps] sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted and honored, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? ⁸I robbed other churches by accepting [more than their share of] financial support for my ministry to you. ⁹And when I was with you and ran short [financially], I did not burden any of you; for what I needed was fully supplied by the brothers (Silas and Timothy) who came from Macedonia (the church at Philippi). So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so. ¹⁰As the truth of Christ is in me, my boast [of independence] will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia (southern Greece). ¹¹Why? Because I do not love you [or wish you well, or have regard for your welfare]? God knows [that I do]!¹²But what I am doing I will keep doing, [for I am determined to keep this independence] in order to cut off the claim of those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things they brag about. ¹³For such men are counterfeit apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder, since Satan himself masquerades as an angel 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 [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 9:7
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

Genesis 11:3
They said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them]." So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.

Genesis 11:4
They said, "Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top will reach into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] and be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the LORD instructed]."

Genesis 11:32
Terah lived two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
Let our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace;

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.