2 Corinthians 5:20
For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.
Job 22:21Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
Job 33:23If there shall be an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare man's uprightness,
Proverbs 13:17The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
Jeremiah 38:20But Jeremias answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to thee, and it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.
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 →