2 Corinthians 5:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Common English Bible

²⁰ So we are ambassadors who represent Christ. God is negotiating with you through us. We beg you as Christ’s representatives, “Be reconciled to God!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:13

Yet Adonai had forewarned Israel and Judah by the hand of every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets.”

2 Chronicles 36:15

Adonai, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through His messengers again and again, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Nehemiah 9:29

“You warned them in order to turn them back to Your Torah, but they became insolent and disobeyed Your mitzvot. They sinned against Your ordinances—those by which if a man does them he will live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

Job 22:21

“Reconcile now with Him and have shalom— in this way prosperity will come to you.

Job 33:23

“If there is an angel beside him, a messenger, one out of a thousand, to declare to a man his uprightness,

Job 33:6

Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay.

Proverbs 13:17

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

Isaiah 27:5

Rather let them rely on My strength. Let them make peace with Me— make peace with Me.”

Jeremiah 38:20

But Jeremiah said: “They will not hand you over. Please, obey the voice of Adonai, in what I am speaking to you, so it will go well for you, and your soul will live!

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Oh, do not do this loathsome thing that I hate.’

Malachi 2:7

For a kohen’s lips should guard knowledge, and instruction must be sought from his mouth. For he is a messenger of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Luke 10:16

The one who listens to you hears Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me, and the one who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

Luke 14:23

“So the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the thoroughfares and fenced areas, and press them to come in so my home may be filled.

John 20:21

Yeshua said to them again, “Shalom aleichem! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

Romans 5:10

For if, while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.

2 Corinthians 12:10

For Messiah’s sake, then, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He also made us competent as servants of a new covenant—not of the letter, but of the Ruach. For the letter kills, but the Ruach gives life.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we are trying to persuade people, but what we are is known to God—and I hope it is known to your consciences as well.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Since we are co-laboring, we also urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may speak boldly, the way I should.

Colossians 1:20

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross— whether things on earth or things in heaven!

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Consequently, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who gives His Ruach ha-Kodesh to you.