2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

In Context

19That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

21For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

Job 22:21Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

Job 33:23If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

Proverbs 13:17A man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well.

Isaiah 55:6Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Ministry of the Apostles. ( a. d. 57.) 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not… Read the whole commentary →

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