2 Corinthians 5:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

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  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: 11 for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.
  • Isa 56:7 : 7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.
  • Rom 14:8 : 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as not beating the air: 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
  • Col 1:10 : 10 to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 1:29 : 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.

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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

    3if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

    4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

    5Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

    6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

    7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

    8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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    10For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.

    11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

    12We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

    13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

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    11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 14:18-19
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    18For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

    19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

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    12So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

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    10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

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    10so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

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    3For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing,

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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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    14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

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    29whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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    11To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;

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    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

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