2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

Majority Standard Bible

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 God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

Job 22:21Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Job 33:23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Proverbs 13:17A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Jeremiah 38:20“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may 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 →

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