2 Corinthians 5:19

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In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn’t hold people’s faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others.

Cross References

Isaiah 43:25

I alone am the one who is going to wipe away your rebellious actions for my own sake. I will not remember your sins ⌞anymore⌟.

Isaiah 44:22

I made your rebellious acts disappear like a thick cloud and your sins like the morning mist. Come back to me, because I have reclaimed you.

Numbers 9:16

The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke covering the tent glowed like fire.

Matthew 1:23

“The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,” which means “God is with us.”

John 14:20

On that day you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me and that I am in you.

John 17:23

I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me.

Romans 11:15

If Israel’s rejection means that the world has been brought back to God, what does Israel’s acceptance mean? It means that Israel has come back to life.

1 Corinthians 13:5

It isn’t rude. It doesn’t think about itself. It isn’t irritable. It doesn’t keep track of wrongs.

Colossians 2:9

All of God lives in Christ’s body,

1 Timothy 3:16

The mystery that gives us our reverence for God is acknowledged to be great: He  appeared in his human nature, was approved by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was announced throughout the nations, was believed in the world, and was taken to heaven in glory.

1 John 4:10

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins.