2 Corinthians 5:20

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:13

And the Lord testified to them, in Israel and in Judah, through the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: "Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts and ceremonies, in accord with the entire law, which I instructed to your fathers, and just as I sent to you by the hand of my servants, the prophets."

2 Chronicles 36:15

Then the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising in the night and daily admonishing them. For he was lenient to his people and to his habitation.

Nehemiah 9:29

And you contended with them, so that they might return to your law. Yet truly, they acted in arrogance, and they did not listen to your commandments, and they sinned against your judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they withdrew from offering their shoulder, and they hardened their neck; neither would they listen.

Job 22:21

So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.

Job 33:23

If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,

Job 33:6

Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

Proverbs 13:17

The messenger of the impious will fall into evil. But a faithful ambassador shall prosper.

Isaiah 27:5

Or will he, instead, take hold of my strength? Will he make peace with me? Will she make peace with me?

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah responded: "They will not deliver you. Listen, I ask you, to the voice of the Lord, which I am speaking to you, and it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 44:4

And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising in the night, and sending, and saying: 'Do not choose to do this abominable word, which I hate.'

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of the priests will keep knowledge, and they will request the law from his mouth, because he is an angel of the Lord of hosts.

Luke 10:16

Whoever hears you, hears me. And whoever despises you, despises me. And whoever despises me, despises him who sent me."

Luke 14:23

And the lord said to the servant: 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to enter, so that my house may be filled.

John 20:21

Therefore, he said to them again: "Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."

Romans 5:10

For if we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, while we were still enemies, all the more so, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Because of this, I am pleased in my infirmity: in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am powerful.

2 Corinthians 3:6

And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, having knowledge of the fear of the Lord, we appeal to men, but we are made manifest before God. Yet I hope, too, that we may be made manifest in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Ephesians 6:20

in such a manner that I may dare to speak exactly as I ought to speak. For I act as an ambassador in chains for the Gospel.

Colossians 1:20

and that, through him, all things be reconciled to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, for the things that are on earth, as well as the things that are in heaven.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.