2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 31 Holy Bible
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.
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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.
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The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.
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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
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The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
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the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.) . . .
