2 Corinthians 5:14

WEB

¹⁴For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.

KJV

¹⁴For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

BSB

¹⁴For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

FBV

¹⁴Christ's love urges us on, because we're absolutely sure that he died for everyone, and so everyone died.

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Extra References

Galatians 2:20

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Romans 14:7-9

⁷For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. ⁸For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Matthew 10:37-38

³⁷He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. ³⁸He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.

Matthew 20:28

²⁸even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

1 Peter 1:8

⁸whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Romans 5:15

¹⁵But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

John 14:21-23

²¹One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

²²Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.