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2 Corinthians 5:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in ➔ Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. "
2 Corinthians 5:20
Verse in Context
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And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in ➔ Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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2 Corinthians 5:1
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
2 Corinthians 5:2
"For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:"
2 Corinthians 5:3
"If so be that being clothed we shall ➔ not be found naked."
2 Corinthians 5:4
"For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."
2 Corinthians 5:5
"Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit."
2 Corinthians 5:6
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:"
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