2 Corinthians 5:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wherefore also we couet, that both dwelling at home, and remouing from home, we may be acceptable to him.

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  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same ensample of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherefore, beloued, seeing that yee looke for such thinges, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blamelesse.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore seeing we receiue a kingdome, which cannot be shaken, let vs haue grace whereby we may so serue God, that we may please him with reuerence and feare.
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Wherefore, brethren, giue rather diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye doe these things, ye shall neuer fall. 11 For by this meanes an entring shalbe ministred vnto you aboundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sinne lieth at the doore: also vnto thee his desire shalbe subiect, and thou shalt rule ouer him.
  • Isa 56:7 : 7 Them wil I bring also to mine holy mountaine, and make them ioyfull in mine House of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted vpon mine altar: for mine House shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for ye meate which perisheth, but for the meate that endureth vnto euerlasting life, which the Sonne of man shal giue vnto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in euery nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousnesse, is accepted with him.
  • Rom 14:8 : 8 For whether wee liue, we liue vnto the Lorde: or whether we die, we die vnto the Lorde: whether we liue therefore, or die, we are the Lords.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For whosoeuer in these things serueth Christ, is acceptable vnto God, and is approoued of men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation.
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre. 27 But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,
  • Col 1:10 : 10 That ye might walke worthy of the Lord, & please him in all things, being fruitefull in all good workes, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 And furthermore we beseeche you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Iesus, that ye increase more and more, as ye haue receiued of vs, how ye ought to walke, and to please God.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And that ye studie to be quiet, & to meddle with your owne busines, and to worke with your owne handes, as we commaunded you,
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therefore we labour and are rebuked, because we trust in the liuing God, which is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.

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