2 Corinthians 5:15

World English Bible (2000)

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Col 3:1 : 1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:14-15 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
  • Col 3:17 : 17 Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
  • Phil 1:20-21 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Luke 1:74 : 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • Col 2:12 : 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
  • Col 3:23 : 23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
  • John 5:24 : 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
  • Rom 6:11-13 : 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • 2 Kgs 5:17 : 17 Naaman said, "If not, then, please let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.
  • Ezek 16:6 : 6 When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.
  • Ezek 37:9 : 9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
  • Ezek 37:14 : 14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
  • Zech 10:9 : 9 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • John 3:15-16 : 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Rom 8:6 : 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
  • Rom 8:10 : 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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    13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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  • Rom 6:2-11
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    2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

    3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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

    6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

    7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

    8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

    9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

    10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

    11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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    9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

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    16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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    10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

    11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

    12 So then death works in us, but life in you.

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    6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

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    21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

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

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    3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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

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    21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

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    13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

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    16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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    31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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    29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

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    5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

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    15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;

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    2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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    3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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    15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

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    6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

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    21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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    18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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    9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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    13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.