2 Corinthians 5:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Isaiah 56:7

these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will 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 which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal.”

Acts 10:35

but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Romans 14:18

he who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Romans 14:8

If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 15:20

thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

2 Corinthians 5:8

We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Colossians 1:10

to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 1:29

For this I toil, striving with all the energy which he mightily inspires within me.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;

Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience.

2 Peter 3:14

Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.