2 Corinthians 5:17 Cross References - Lamsa

¹⁷ Whoever from now on is a follower of Christ, is a new creation: old things have passed away;

¹⁶ No man puts a new patch on an old garment, so as not to weaken that garment, and make the hole larger. ¹⁷ Neither do they pour new wine into worn out skins, so as not to rend the skins, and spill the wine, and the wine runs out, and the skins are ruined; but they pour new wine into new skins, and both of them are well preserved.

³³ Either produce like a good tree with good fruits, or produce like a bad tree with bad fruits; for a tree is known by its fruits.

³⁵ Even heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man is not born again,* he cannot see the kingdom of God.

⁵ Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man is not born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

²⁰ In that day you will know that I am with my Father, and you are with me, and I am with you.

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he cuts out; and the one which bears fruit, he prunes so that it may bring forth more fruit.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains with me and I with him, will bear abundant fruit; for without me you can do nothing.

²³ I with them and you with me, that they may become perfected in one; so that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them just as you loved me.

⁴ Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death: so that as Jesus Christ arose from the dead by the glory of his Father, even so we also shall walk in a new life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶ For we know, that our old selves are crucified with him, so that the sinful body might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

⁶ But now we are freed from the law, being dead to that which had hold upon us; and we should henceforth serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

¹ THERE is therefore no condemnation to them who walk in the flesh after the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit if the Spirit of God truly dwells within you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. ¹⁰ And if Christ is within you, the body is dead because of sin: but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

⁷ Salute An-dro-niÆcus and Junia, my kinsmen, who were prisoners with me, and wellknown among the apostles, and who were believers in Christ before me.

¹¹ Salute He-roÆdi-on my kinsman. Greet the members of the household of Nar-cisÆsus, who are in our LORD.

³⁰ But you also belong to God through Jesus Christ who, from God, is wisdom and righteousness and sanctification, and salvation to all of us.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹⁶ And now from henceforth we do not know any one in the body: even though once we had known Christ in the body, we no longer know him now.

¹⁹ For God was in Christ, who has reconciled the world with his majesty, not counting their sins against them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

²¹ For he who did not know sin, for your sakes he made him sin, that we may through him be made the righteousness of God.

² I knew a man in Christ more than fourteen years ago, but whether I knew him in the body or without the body, I do not know: God knows; this very one was caught up to the third heaven.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Syrian, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Jesus Christ.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision; but faith which is accomplished by love.

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is anything, nor uncircumcision, but it is a new creation that counts.

³ Blessed be the God, and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heaven through Christ: ⁴ Just as from the beginning he has chosen us through him, before the foundation of the world, that we may become holy and without blemish before him.

¹⁰ For we are his creation, created through Jesus Christ ultimately for good works, which God has before ordained that we should live in them.

¹⁵ And he has abolished by his precious body, the enmity between them, and he has abolished by his commandments, the ordinances of the law, that he may create, in his person, from the two, a new man, thus making peace;

²² That you lay aside all your former practices, that is to say, the old man which is degenerated with deceitful lusts; ²³ And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And that you put on the new man, who is created by God in righteousness and true holiness.

⁷ But these things which once were a gain to me, I counted a loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ And I still count them all a loss, for the sake of abundant knowledge of Jesus Christ my LORD: for whom I have lost everything, and I have considered all those things as refuse, so that I may increase in Christ ⁹ And be found in him, since I have no righteousness of my own gained from the law, but the righteousness which comes through the faith of Christ; that is, the righteousness which comes from God:

²¹ Salute every saint in Jesus Christ. The brethren who are with me greet you.

¹ IF you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. ² Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth, ³ For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. ⁵ Mortify therefore your earthly members: immorality, uncleanness, intemperate desires, evil lusts, and covetousness, for these are idolatry; ⁶ And it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. ⁷ In the past you also lived among these things, and you were perverted by them. ⁸ But now put off from you all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, foul conversation. ⁹ Do not lie one to another, but put away the old life with all its practices; ¹⁰ And put on the new life which is renewed in knowledge after the pattern in which it was originally created:

⁹ Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt; and because they abode not in my covenant, I rejected them, saith the LORD. ¹⁰ For this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law into their minds, and I will write it on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹¹ And no man shall teach his neighbor, neither his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for all shall know me, from the youngest to the oldest. ¹² And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sins. ¹³ By that which he has said, With a new covenant, the first one has become old, and that which is old and obsolete is near destruction.

¹⁰ But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night, when the heavens shall suddenly pass away, and the universe shall separate as it burns, and the earth also and the works that are in it, shall pass away. ¹¹ Now since all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in your holy conduct and godliness, ¹² Looking for and longing for the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being tested with fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

¹ AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and the very God shall be with them, and be their God; ⁴ And he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor wailing, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away. ⁵ And he who sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Then he said to me, Write: for these are the trustworthy and true words of God.