2 Corinthians 5:20

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Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf,“Be reconciled to God!”

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  • Eph 6:20 : 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 God’s Suffering Servants Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
  • Luke 14:23 : 23 So the master said to his slave,‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.
  • Ezek 18:31-32 : 31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
  • 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.
  • Job 22:21 : 21 “Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
  • Prov 1:22-33 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge? 23 You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you. 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention, 25 and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, 26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me. 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD, 30 they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke. 31 Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel. 32 For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them. 33 But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.
  • John 20:21 : 21 So Jesus said to them again,“Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
  • 1 Cor 4:4-5 : 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord. 5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 An unreliable messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
  • 2 Kgs 17:13 : 13 The LORD solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers,“Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”
  • 2 Chr 36:15 : 15 The Babylonians Destroy Jerusalem The LORD God of their ancestors continually warned them through his messengers, for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
  • Jer 13:16-17 : 16 Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile. 17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly, and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the LORD’s flock, will be carried into exile.”
  • Jer 38:20 : 20 Then Jeremiah answered,“You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the LORD by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
  • Job 33:23 : 23 If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;
  • Isa 27:5 : 5 unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

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