2 Corinthians 5:20

Modern English Version

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:13

But the Lord warned Israel and Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, “Turn 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 My servants the prophets.”

2 Chronicles 36:15

The Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them over and over again by His messengers because He had compassion on His people and His dwelling place.

Nehemiah 9:29

“You warned them in order to restore them again to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances (which would enable a man to live, if he would do them), stubbornly turning away and becoming belligerent so that they would not hear.

Job 22:21

“Now acquaint yourself with Him and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

Job 33:23

If there is a messenger for him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,

Job 33:6

Surely I am before God like you; I also am formed out of the clay.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Isaiah 27:5

Or let him rely on My strength; let him make peace with Me; let him make peace with Me.

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah said, “They will not deliver you. Please obey the voice of the Lord which I speak to you, so it will be well with you and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 44:4

However, I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.”

Malachi 2:7

For a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

Luke 10:16

“He who listens to you listens to Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

Luke 14:23

“Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

John 20:21

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you.”

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life!

2 Corinthians 12:10

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in hardships, in persecutions, and in distresses for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust we are also revealed in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As workers together with God, we ask you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Ephesians 6:20

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

Colossians 1:20

and to reconcile all things to Himself by Him, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him, I say—whether they are things in earth, or things in heaven.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he that despises does not despise man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.