2 Corinthians 5:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 4 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Now He Who has fashioned us [preparing and making us fit] for this very thing is God, Who also has given us the [Holy] Spirit as a guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

Common English Bible

⁵ Now the one who prepared us for this very thing is God, and God gave us the Spirit as a down payment for our home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Now the One who accomplishes this very thing in us is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:5 Cross References

Isaiah 29:23

For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.

Isaiah 60:21

For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Isaiah 61:3

1 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Romans 8:23

1 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

2 Corinthians 1:22

So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

2 Corinthians 4:17

But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Ephesians 2:10

9 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

Ephesians 4:30

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

1 John 3:24

By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.