2 Corinthians 5:13-6:2
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For if we c are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
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For the love of Christ d controls us, because we have concluded this: that e one has died for all, therefore all have died;
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and he died for all, f that those who live might no longer live for themselves but g for him who for their sake died and was raised.
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From now on, therefore, h we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
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Therefore, if anyone is i in Christ, he is j a new creation. k The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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All this is from God, l who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us m the ministry of reconciliation;
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that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, n not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us m the message of reconciliation.
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Therefore, o we are ambassadors for Christ, p God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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q For our sake he made him to be sin r who knew no sin, so that in him we might become s the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 6
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t Working together with him, then, u we appeal to you v not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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For he says,
w "In a favorable time I listened to you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you."
Behold, x now is the y favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
2 Corinthians 11:16 - 17
I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 12:6
Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
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Acts 18:5
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
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Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
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Romans 6:11 - 12
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
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2 Corinthians 12:10
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
Philippians 3:7 - 8
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
Colossians 2:11
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.
1 Timothy 5:21
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
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2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven - whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
Galatians 1:22
And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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John 3:3
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
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Isaiah 43:18 - 19
Remember not the former things, nor consider th...
Revelation 21:5
And he who was seated on the throne said, "Beho...
Isaiah 65:17
For behold, I create new heavens and a new eart...
Ephesians 2:15
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed...
Ephesians 4:24
And to put on the new self, created after the l...
Hebrews 8:13
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the fir...
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Colossians 1:20
And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
1 John 2:2
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
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Romans 5:11
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.
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2 Corinthians 5:18
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Ephesians 6:20
For which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Galatians 4:14
And though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
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2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree" -
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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1 Peter 2:22
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
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Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
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Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
Acts 15:4
When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
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2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.
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Isaiah 49:8
Thus says the Lord : "In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.
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Psalms 32:6
Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Luke 4:19
To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
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Isaiah 49:8
Thus says the Lord : "In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.
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