2 Corinthians 5:15

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And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

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  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Col 3:1 : 1 Exhortations to Seek the Things Above Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:14-15 : 14 Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,
  • Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires. 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries. 4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
  • Phil 1:20-21 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die. 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
  • Luke 1:74 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
  • Col 2:12 : 12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
  • Col 3:23 : 23 Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,
  • John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 6:57 : 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  • Rom 6:11-13 : 11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
  • 2 Kgs 5:17 : 17 Naaman said,“If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the LORD.
  • Ezek 16:6 : 6 “‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood,“Live!”
  • Ezek 37:9 : 9 He said to me,“Prophesy to the breath,– prophesy, son of man– and say to the breath:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”
  • Ezek 37:14 : 14 I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the LORD– I have spoken and I will act, declares the LORD.’”
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
  • Zech 10:9 : 9 Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places– they and their children will survive and return.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
  • John 3:15-16 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Benediction and Conclusion Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, 21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 8:6 : 6 For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,
  • Rom 8:10 : 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

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  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
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    13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

    14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

  • Rom 6:2-11
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    2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

    3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

    5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

    6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

    9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

    10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

  • Rom 14:7-9
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    7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

    8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

    9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

  • Gal 2:19-20
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    19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

    20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12 As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • Rom 5:6-8
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    6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

    8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Cor 15:21-22
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    21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

    22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

  • 1 Cor 15:3-4
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    3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

    4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures,

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    21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

  • 2 Tim 2:11
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    11 This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

  • 1 Cor 15:11-13
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    11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

    12 No Resurrection? Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

    13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • 2 Cor 13:4
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    4 For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

  • 1 Cor 15:16
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    16 For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • 1 John 3:16
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    16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • 1 Cor 15:31
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    31 Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29 Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

  • 2 Cor 2:15
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    15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing–

  • Eph 5:2
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    2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

  • Col 3:3
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    3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15 For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

  • 1 Pet 4:6
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    6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • 1 Cor 15:18
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    18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

  • 2 Cor 1:9
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    9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

  • Rom 8:13
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    13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

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