1 Thessalonians 2:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?

New Living Translation
After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you!

English Standard Version
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

Berean Study Bible
After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

New American Standard Bible
For who is our hope, or joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? Or is it not indeed you?

NASB 1995
For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

NASB 1977
For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

Amplified Bible
For who is [the object of] our hope or joy or our victor’s wreath of triumphant celebration [when we stand] in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? Is it not you?

Christian Standard Bible
For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? Is it not you?

Contemporary English Version
After all, when the Lord Jesus appears, who else but you will give us hope and joy and be like a glorious crown for us?

Good News Translation
After all, it is you--you, no less than others!--who are our hope, our joy, and our reason for boasting of our victory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who is our hope, joy, or prize that we can brag about in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Isn't it you?

International Standard Version
After all, who is our hope, joy, or reason for rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? It is you, isn't it?

NET Bible
For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

New King James Version
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

King James 2000 Bible
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

New Heart English Bible
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

World English Bible
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

American King James Version
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

American Standard Version
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

A Faithful Version
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

Darby Bible Translation
For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? [are] not ye also before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

English Revised Version
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Webster's Bible Translation
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For what is our hope or ioye, or crowne of reioycing? are not euen you it in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For what is our hope, or ioy, or crowne of reioycyng? Are not ye it in the presence of our Lorde Iesus Christe, at his commyng?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For who is oure hope, or ioye, or crowne of reioysinge? are not ye it in ye sighte of oure LORDE Iesus Christ at his commynge?

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For what is oure hope or ioye or croune of reioysynge? are not ye it in the presence of oure lorde Iesus Christ at his comynge?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for what [is] our hope, or joy, or garland of rejoicing? Are not even you before our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

Berean Literal Bible
For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Or are not even you, before our Lord Jesus at His coming?

Young's Literal Translation
for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

Smith's Literal Translation
For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

Literal Emphasis Translation
For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Or is it not even you- before the face of our Lord Jesus in His coming?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Catholic Public Domain Version
For what is our hope, and our joy, and our crown of glory? Is it not you, before our Lord Jesus Christ at his return?

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For what is our hope and our joy and the crown of our glory, but you alone, before our Lord Yeshua at his coming?

Lamsa Bible
For what is our hope, our joy, or crown of our glorying? Is it not you in the presence of our LORD Jesus when he comes?

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Godbey New Testament
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing, except you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Haweis New Testament
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Mace New Testament
for what can be our hope, or joy, what can crown our pretensions, unless it be you, when we shall appear before the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Weymouth New Testament
For what is our hope or joy, or the crown of which we boast? Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His Coming?

Worrell New Testament
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

Worsley New Testament
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
















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