2 Corinthians 5:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20 Cross References

Luke 14:23

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Malachi 2:7

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

John 20:21

Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Luke 10:16

He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

Isaiah 27:5

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

Job 33:23

If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To shew unto man what is right for him;

Job 33:6

Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

2 Chronicles 36:15

And the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

Jeremiah 44:4

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falleth into evil: But a faithful ambassador is health.

Nehemiah 9:29

and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgements, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

2 Kings 17:13

Yet the LORD testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.

Romans 5:10

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

2 Corinthians 12:10

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Colossians 1:20

and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.