2 Corinthians 11:2
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
I am as concerned about you as God is. You were like a virgin bride I had chosen only for Christ.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

jealous.

Galatians 4:11,17-19 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. . . .

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

I have.

Genesis 24:2-5,58-67 And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh, . . .

Psalm 45:10,11 Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. . . .

Isaiah 54:5 For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 62:4,5 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited. . . .

Hosea 2:19,20 And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations. . . .

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

1 Corinthians 4:15 For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

I may.

Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

a chaste.

Leviticus 21:13-15 He shall take a virgin unto his wife. . . .

Ezekiel 44:22 Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.

Context
Paul and the False Apostles
1Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me. 2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.…
Cross References
Hosea 2:19
And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

2 Corinthians 4:14
Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

Ephesians 5:27
That he might present it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Revelation 14:4
These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

2 Corinthians 11:1
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