2 Corinthians 5:14
12 We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.
13 If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
15 And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- KJV
- For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- WEB
- For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
- ASV
- For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
- DARBY
- For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
- BLB
- For the love of Christ compels us, having judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died.
- ÅB
- For Kristi kjærlighet tvinger oss,
- OTB
- For Kristi kjærlighet driver oss, etter å ha konkludert dette: at én døde for alle, derfor døde alle;
- B1930
- For Kristi kjærlighet tvinger oss,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Read in contextRomans 14:7–9
For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
Read in contextMatthew 10:37–38
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Read in context1 Peter 1:8
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
Read in contextRomans 5:15
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
Read in contextMatthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Read in contextEphesians 3:18–19
will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
Read in contextJohn 14:21–23
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
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