2 Corinthians 5:17 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹⁷ For, if any one be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!

¹⁶ No person mends an old garment with undressed cloth; else the patch itself tears the garment, and makes a greater rent. ¹⁷ Neither do people put new wine into old leather bottles; otherwise the bottles burst: and thus, both the wine is spilt, and the bottles are rendered useless. But they put new wine into new bottles, and bother are preserved.

³³ Either call the tree good, and its fruit good; or call the tree bad, and its fruit bad: for we distinguish the tree by its fruit.

³⁵ Heaven and earth shall fail; but my words shall never fail.

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that their union may be perfected; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou lovest them, as thou lovest me.

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

¹⁵ For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but a new creature.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; ⁴ according as he has elected us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and unblameable in his sight; in love,

³ Jesus answering, said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a man be born again, he can not discern the Reign of God.

⁵ Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a man be born of water and Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God.

²⁰ On that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me; and I in you.

² Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful.

⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing.

⁴ We have been buried, then, together with him, by the immersion into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; so we also shall walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death; we shall then, also, certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection. ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not any longer serve sin:

⁶ But now, having died with Christ, we are released from the law, by which we were held in bondage; so that we may serve God in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

¹ There is, then, no condemnation, now, to those who are in Christ Jesus.

⁹ Now, you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit; because the Spirit of God dwells in you. But, if any one have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ¹⁰ And if Christ be in you, the body, indeed, is dead, with respect to sin; but the Spirit is life, with respect to righteousness.

⁷ Salute Andronicus, and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

¹¹ Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those of the family of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

³⁰ Of him, therefore, you are in Christ Jesus, who is become to us wisdom from God, justification, also, and sanctification, and redemption.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹⁶ So that we, from this time forth, respect no man on account of the flesh: and even if we have esteemed Christ on account of the flesh, yet now we esteem him no more on that account.

¹⁹ namely, that God was, by Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting to them their trespasses, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

²¹ For he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us; that we might become the justified of God, by him.

² I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I do not know; God knows:) such a one suddenly conveyed away to the third heaven.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, for which God before prepared us, that we should walk in them.

¹⁵ having abolished, by his flesh, the enmity, (the law of the commandments concerning ordinances,) that he might make the two into one new man, under himself, making peace:

²² that, with respect to your former conduct, you put away the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ²³ that you be renewed in the spirit of your minds; ²⁴ and that you put on the new man; which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

⁷ But the things which were gain to me, those I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ Yes, indeed, on this account, also, I count all things loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord; (for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do account them mere refuse, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my righteousness by law, but that which is through the faith of Christ-the righteousness which is from God on account of this faith)-

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

¹ If, then, you have been raised with Christ seek the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. ² Set your affections on things above; not on things upon the earth. ³ For you are dead; but your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ our life shall appear then you shall also appear with him in glory. ⁵ Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and licentiousness, which is idolatry; ⁶ for which the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience; ⁷ in which you also formerly walked, when you lived with them. ⁸ But now also put away all these, anger, wrath, malice, defamation, obscene discourse, from your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man, with his practices; ¹⁰ and having put on the new, who is renewed by knowledge, after the image of him, who created him;-

⁹ not according to the institution which I made with their fathers, at the time of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt-because they did not abide in my institution, I also neglected them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ Now this is the institution which I will make with the house of Israel, after these days, says the Lord. I will put my laws into their mind, and inscribe them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. ¹¹ And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. ¹² Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more." ¹³ By saying, "a new institution," he has made the former old: now, that which is decaying and growing old, is ready to vanish away.

¹⁰ However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned. ¹¹ Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² expecting and earnestly desiring, the coming of the day of God; in which the heavens being set on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements burning, shall be melted? ¹³ But we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

¹ And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth were passed away: and the sea was no more. ² And I, John, saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending from God, out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall pitch his tent among them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be among them-their God. ⁴ And he shall away wipe every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, nor grief, nor crying; nor shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. ⁵ And he that sat upon the throne, said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write, for these are true and faithful words.