2 Corinthians 11:11

Webster's Bible Translation

Why? because I love you not? God knoweth.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

Hebrew Names Version
Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

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.

Update Bible Version
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

English Standard Version
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

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?

English Revised Version
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore? because I loue you not? God knoweth.

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!

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.

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore? Because I loue you not? God knoweth.

Good News Translation
Do I say this because I don't love you? God knows I love you!

Christian Standard Bible®
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do!

King James Version
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

Contextual Overview

⁵ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very greatest apostles. ⁶ But though [I am] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. ⁷ Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God without reward? ⁸ I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. ⁹ And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. ¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? because I love you not? God knoweth. ¹² But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them who desire occasion; that in what they glory, they may be found even as we. ¹³ For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into 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, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living animal that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of 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.