2 Corinthians 5:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

The terror

We persuade

But

1 Thessalonians 2:3

General references

Psalm 90:11

Ezekiel 32:32

Galatians 6:5

Bible References

The terror

And they journeyed, and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.

How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Thou, even thou, are to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou are angry?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the profane. Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?

Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good-news, this man will save it.

And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

And in fear save some, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment that was stained by the flesh.

And if any man was found not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

We persuade

We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

And working jointly, we urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain

And he said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if some man would rise from the dead.

Now after the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, while conversing, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And he was discoursing in the synagogue every Sabbath, and was persuading Jews and Greeks.

And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this man Paul, having persuaded them, turned away a considerable multitude, saying that there are no gods made by hands.

And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time,

For the king knows about these things, before whom I also speak boldly. For I am convinced not any of these things, nothing, to be hidden from him. For this was not done in a corner.

And having appointed a day for him, more came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded, solemnly testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from m

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

Whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

But

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

for I know nothing on myself. Yet I have not been made righteous in this, but he who appraises me is Lord.

For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,

General references

Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?

For I have put his terror in the land of the living, and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says lord LORD.

For each man will bear his own burden.