2 Corinthians 5:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

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  • Heb 4:11 : 11 May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble, 11 for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'
  • Isa 56:7 : 7 I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices `Are' for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, `A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.
  • John 6:27 : 27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;
  • Rom 14:8 : 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 for he who in these things is serving the Christ, `is' acceptable to God and approved of men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build --
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air; 27 but I chastise my body, and bring `it' into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,
  • Col 1:10 : 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
  • Col 1:29 : 29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.

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    3if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,

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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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    10proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

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