2 Corinthians 5:14

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Summary

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

The love

Constraineth

Luke 24:29

Acts 4:19

One

1 John 2:1

Then

General references

John 14:15

Ephesians 4:20

1 John 4:19

Bible References

The love

I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

As they could not pay him, he canceled what they owed him. Now which of them will be more attached to him?"

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!

so that you and all God's people may be strong enough to grasp what breadth, length, height, and depth mean,

God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.

You must love him, though you have not seen him, but since you believe in him though you do not now see him, rejoice with triumphant, unutterable joy

Constraineth

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him,

One

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

Then

But if the religion of death, carved in letters of stone, was ushered in with such splendor, so that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face on account of the brightness that was fading from it,

for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

But there is no comparison between God's gift and that offense. For if one man's offense made the mass of mankind die, God's mercy and his gift given through the favor of the one man Jesus Christ have far more powerfully affected mankind.

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

Yes, you who were dead through your misdeeds and physically uncircumcised, God raised to life with Christ. He forgave us all our misdeeds,

A widow who gives herself up to pleasure is dead while she is still alive.

For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

General references

"If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,

We love because he loved us first.