2 Corinthians 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ So then, from this point on we won’t recognize people by human standards. Even though we used to know Christ by human standards, that isn’t how we know him now.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And so, from now on, we know no one according to the flesh. And though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him in this way no longer.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Cross References

Colossians 3:11

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, enslaved and free, but Christ is all and in all!

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 2:4

And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”

Matthew 10:37

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me,

2 Corinthians 11:18

since many boast according to human standards, I will also boast.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he ignored his kin and did not acknowledge his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.

John 8:15

You judge by human standards; I judge no one.

Philippians 3:4

even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more:

Numbers 10:30

But he said to him, “I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred.”