2 Corinthians 5:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. 11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to 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 on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."
  • John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
  • Rom 14:8 : 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.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are courageous, 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, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,
  • Col 1:10 : 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 1:29 : 29 for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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

    2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

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

    4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

    6Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

    7for we walk by faith, not by sight.

    8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 5:10-14
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    10For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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

    12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a person consider 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 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.

  • Rom 14:18-19
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    18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

    19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

  • Phil 2:12
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    12So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, 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 to the Lord.

  • Phil 1:10
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    10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

  • 1 Cor 5:3
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    3For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

  • Col 1:29
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    29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

  • 2 Thess 1:11
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    11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;

  • 2 Cor 4:10-11
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    10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

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    9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

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

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    58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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    14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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    5For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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    7Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

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    11if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

    12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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    1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

  • Heb 13:21
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    21make 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.

  • 1 Thess 2:17
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    17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

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    12So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

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    3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

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    9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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    21Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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    9Be diligent to come to me soon,

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    9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

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    9For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

  • 2 Cor 5:20
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    20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

  • 2 Cor 4:14
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    14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.