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<span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know <i>Him</i> <i>in this way</i> no longer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore if anyone is in Christ, <i>he is</i> a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Now all <i>these</i> things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>He made Him who knew no sin <i>to be</i> sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_corinthians/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_corinthians/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/2_corinthians/5.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_corinthians/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_corinthians/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/2_corinthians/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_corinthians/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_corinthians/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_1_for_we_must.htm">August 1. "For we must all Appear Before the Judgment Seat of Christ; that Every one May Receive the Things done in his Body, According to that He Hath Done" (ii Cor. v. 10). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done" (II Cor. v. 10). It will not always be the day of toil and trial. Some day, we shall hear our names announced before the universe, and the record read of things that we had long forgotten. How our hearts will thrill, and our heads will bow, as we shall hear our own names called, and then the Master shall recount the triumph and the services which we had <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_1_for_we_must.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_work_and_armour_of.htm">The Work and Armour of the Children of the Day</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet the hope of salvation.'--1 THESS. v. 8. This letter to the Thessalonians is the oldest book of the New Testament. It was probably written within something like twenty years of the Crucifixion; long, therefore, before any of the Gospels were in existence. It is, therefore, exceedingly interesting and instructive to notice how this whole context is saturated with allusions to our Lord's teaching, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_work_and_armour_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria_crucis/v_the_great_reconciliation.htm">The Great Reconciliation</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 COR. V. 19. Such considerations as we have had before us, are of far more than theoretical interest. They are of all questions the most practical. Sin is not a curious object which we examine from an aloof and external standpoint. However we regard it, to whatever view of its nature we are led, it is, alas, a fact within and not merely outside our experience. And so we are at length brought to this most personal and most urgent inquiry, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria_crucis/v_the_great_reconciliation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. H. Beibitz—</span><span class="citation2">Gloria Crucis</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/tent_and_building.htm">Tent and Building</a><br></span><span class="snippet">For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.'--2 COR. v. 1. Knowledge and ignorance, doubt and certitude, are remarkably blended in these words. The Apostle knows what many men are not certain of; the Apostle doubts as to what all men now are certain of. 'If our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved'--there is surely no if about that. But we must remember that the first Christians, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/tent_and_building.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_love_that_constrains.htm">The Love that Constrains</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The love of Christ constraineth us.'--2 COR. v. 14. It is a dangerous thing to be unlike other people. It is still more dangerous to be better than other people. The world has a little heap of depreciatory terms which it flings, age after age, at all men who have a higher standard and nobler aims than their fellows. A favourite term is 'mad.' So, long ago they said, 'The prophet is a fool; the spiritual man is mad,' and, in His turn, Jesus was said to be 'beside Himself,' and Festus shouted from <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_love_that_constrains.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/pleasing_christ.htm">Pleasing Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'We labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him.'--2 COR. v. 2. We do not usually care very much for, or very much trust, a man's own statement of the motives of his life, especially if in the statement he takes credit for lofty and noble ones. And it would be rather a dangerous experiment for the ordinary run of so-called Christian people to stand up and say what Paul says here, that the supreme design and aim towards which all their lives are directed is to please Jesus Christ. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/pleasing_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_entreaties_of_god.htm">The Entreaties of God</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech ... by us: we pray ... in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.'--2 COR. v. 20. These are wonderful and bold words, not so much because of what they claim for the servants as because of what they reveal of the Lord. That thought, 'as though God did beseech,' seems to me to be the one deserving of our attention now, far rather than any inferences which may be drawn from the words as to the relation of preachers of the Gospel to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_entreaties_of_god.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_patient_workman.htm">The Patient Workman</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Now He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God.'--2 COR. v. 5. These words penetrate deep into the secrets of God. They assume to have read the riddle of life. To Paul everything which we experience, outwardly or inwardly, is from the divine working. Life is to him no mere blind whirl, or unintelligent play of accidental forces, nor is it the unguided result of our own or of others' wills, but is the slow operation of the great Workman. Paul assumes to know the meaning of this protracted <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_patient_workman.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_old_house_and_the.htm">The Old House and the New</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.'--2 COR. v. 8. There lie in the words of my text simply these two things; the Christian view of what death is, and the Christian temper in which to anticipate it. I. First, the Christian view of what death is. Now it is to be observed that, properly speaking, the Apostle is not here referring to the state of the dead, but to the act of dying. The language would more literally and accurately <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/romans_corinthians_to_ii_corinthians_chap_v/the_old_house_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Romans, Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons_preached_at_brighton/vii_the_sacrifice_of_christ.htm">The Sacrifice of Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Preached June 23, 1850. THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that He died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again."--2 Corinthians v. 14, 15. It may be, that in reading these verses some of us have understood them in a sense foreign to that of the apostle. It may have seemed that the arguments ran thus--Because Christ <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons_preached_at_brighton/vii_the_sacrifice_of_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frederick W. Robertson—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons Preached at Brighton</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_15_1869/the_believer_a_new_creature.htm">The Believer a New Creature</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have two great truths here, which would serve us for the subject of meditation for many a day: the believer's position--he is "in Christ;" and the believer's character--he is a "new creature." Upon both of these we shall speak but briefly this morning, but may God grant that we may find instruction therein. I. First, then, let us consider THE CHRISTIAN'S POSITION--he is said to be "in Christ." There are three stages of the human soul in connection with Christ: the first is without Christ, this <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_15_1869/the_believer_a_new_creature.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 15: 1869</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Corinthians 5:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 5:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Corinthians 5:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Corinthians 5:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/2_corinthians/5-14.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>