2 Corinthians 5:18

Easy To Read Version

So we think about the things we cannot see, not what we see. The things we see continue only a short time. And the things we cannot see will continue forever.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:7

It is a wonderful thing to see a messenger come over the hills with good news. It is wonderful to hear a messenger announce, “There is peace! We have been saved! Your God is king!”

Isaiah 57:19

I will teach them a new word:\par ‘Peace.’\par I will give peace to the people near me\par and to the people that are far away.\par I will heal (forgive) those people!”\par The Lord himself said these things.\par

Ezekiel 45:15

And one sheep for every 200 sheep\par from every watering hole in Israel.\par

Daniel 9:24

“God has allowed 70 weeks {\cf2\super [105]} for your people and your holy city, Daniel. The 70 weeks {\cf2\super [106]} are ordered for these reasons: to stop doing bad things, to stop sinning, to make people pure, to bring the goodness that continues forever, to put a seal {\cf2\super [107]} on visions {\cf2\super [108]} and prophets, and to dedicate a very holy place.

Leviticus 6:30

But if the blood of the sin offering was taken into the Meeting Tent [67] and used in the Holy Place to make {people} pure, [68] then that sin offering must not be eaten. It must be burned in the fire.

Luke 10:5

Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this home.’

John 3:16

Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son. God gave his Son so that every person that believes in him would not be lost, but have life forever.

John 3:27

John answered, “A man can get only what God gives him.

Acts 10:36

God has spoken to the Jewish people. God sent them the Good News {\cf2\super [210]} that peace has come through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lord (Ruler) of all people!

Romans 11:36

Yes, God made all things. And everything continues through God and for God. To God be the glory forever! Amen.

Romans 5:1

We have been made right with God because of our faith. So we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is God that has made you part of Christ Jesus. Christ has become wisdom for us from God. Christ is the reason we are right with God and have freedom from sin; Christ is the reason we are holy. {\cf2\super [10]}

1 Corinthians 11:12

This is true because woman came from man, but also man is born from woman. Really, everything comes from God.

1 Corinthians 12:6

And there are different ways that God works in people; but \{all these ways are from\} the same God. God works in us all to do everything.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.

1 Corinthians 8:6

But for us there is only one God. He is our Father. All things came from him and we live for him. And there is only one Lord. He is Jesus Christ. All things were made through Jesus, and we also have life through him.

Colossians 1:22

But now Christ has made you God’s friends again. Christ did this by his death while he was in his body. Christ did this so that he could bring you before God. He brings you before God as people who are holy, {\cf2\super [6]} with no wrong in you, and with nothing that God can judge you guilty of.

Hebrews 2:17

For this reason Jesus had to be made like us his brothers and sisters in every way. Jesus became like people so that he could be their merciful and faithful high priest {\cf2\super [14]} in service to God. Then Jesus could bring forgiveness for the people’s sins.

James 1:17

Everything good comes from God. And every perfect gift is from God. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky (sun, moon, stars). But God never changes \{like those lights\}. He is always the same.

1 John 2:2

Jesus is the way our sins are taken away. And Jesus is the way that all people can have their sins taken away, too.

1 John 4:10

True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. God sent his Son to be the way that God takes away our sins.