2 Corinthians 5:20 - The Scriptures 2009

Therefore we are envoys on behalf of Messiah, as though Elohim were pleading through us. We beg, on behalf of Messiah: Be restored to favour with Elohim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.

American Standard Version (1901)

We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Common English Bible

So we are ambassadors who represent Christ. God is negotiating with you through us. We beg you as Christ’s representatives, “Be reconciled to God!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20 Cross References

2 Kings 17:13

And יהוה warned Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”

2 Chronicles 36:15

And יהוה Elohim of their fathers sent to them, by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Nehemiah 9:29

and warned them, to bring them back to Your Torah. But they acted proudly, and did not obey Your commands, and sinned against Your right-rulings, ‘which if a man does, he shall live by them.’ And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their necks, and would not hear.

Job 22:21

Be of service to Him, and be at peace; thereby blessing shall come to you.

Job 33:23

If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to show man His straightness,

Job 33:6

See, I am like you before Ěl, I too have been formed out of clay.

Proverbs 13:17

A messenger that is wrong falls into evil, But a trustworthy envoy is a healing.

Isaiah 27:5

“Or let him take hold of My strength and make peace with Me. Let him make peace with Me!”

Jeremiah 38:20

But Yirmeyahu said, “They shall not hand you over. Please, obey the voice of יהוה which I speak to you, and let it be well with you, and your life be spared.

Jeremiah 44:4

And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Please do not do this abominable matter that I hate!”

Malachi 2:7

“For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה of hosts.

Luke 10:16

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.

Luke 14:23

“And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the street corners and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house is filled.

John 20:21

Then יהושע said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

Romans 5:10

For if, being enemies, we were restored to favour with Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been restored to favour, we shall be saved by His life.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Messiah. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Knowing, therefore, the fear of יהוה, we persuade men, but we have been made manifest to Elohim, and I also trust in your consciences to have been manifested.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together, we also call upon you not to receive the favour of Elohim in vain –

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.

Colossians 1:20

and through Him to completely restore to favour all unto Himself, whether on earth or in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of His stake.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but Elohim, who also gives us His Set-apart Spirit.