2 Corinthians 5:9

Modern King James Version

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it.

Isaiah 56:7

even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on My altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples,

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted with Him.

Romans 14:18

For he who serves Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.

Romans 14:8

For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 15:20

Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

1 Corinthians 15:58

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6

Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;

2 Corinthians 5:8

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.

Colossians 1:10

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Colossians 1:29

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

Hebrews 4:11

Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.