2 Corinthians 5:14 Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so t...

5:14 MSG

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The Message - Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.
新标点和合本 - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们想，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们这样断定，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们这样断定，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
当代译本 - 因为基督的爱激励我们，因为我们确信：基督一人既代替众人死了，众人就都死了。
圣经新译本 - 原来基督的爱催逼着我们，因为我们断定一个人替众人死了，众人就都死了。
中文标准译本 - 实际上，基督的爱催逼着我们，因为我们如此判定：既然一个人替所有的人死了，所有的人就都死了；
现代标点和合本 - 原来基督的爱激励我们，因我们想：一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本（拼音版） - 原来基督的爱激励我们。因我们想，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
New International Version - For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
New International Reader's Version - Christ’s love controls us. We are sure that one person died for everyone. And so everyone died.
English Standard Version - For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
New Living Translation - Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
Christian Standard Bible - For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
New American Standard Bible - For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
New King James Version - For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
Amplified Bible - For the love of Christ controls and compels us, because we have concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;
American Standard Version - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
King James Version - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
New English Translation - For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
World English Bible - For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
新標點和合本 - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們想，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們這樣斷定，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們這樣斷定，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
當代譯本 - 因為基督的愛激勵我們，因為我們確信：基督一人既代替眾人死了，眾人就都死了。
聖經新譯本 - 原來基督的愛催逼著我們，因為我們斷定一個人替眾人死了，眾人就都死了。
呂振中譯本 - 基督的愛催迫着我們；我們斷定：一個人既替眾人死了，眾人就都是死了。
中文標準譯本 - 實際上，基督的愛催逼著我們，因為我們如此判定：既然一個人替所有的人死了，所有的人就都死了；
現代標點和合本 - 原來基督的愛激勵我們，因我們想：一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
文理和合譯本 - 蓋基督之愛策我矣、竊思一人為眾死、則眾已死、
文理委辦譯本 - 基督之愛策我矣、竊思一人為眾死、則其眾當死、明矣、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 基督之愛勉勵我、因我思一人既代眾死、則眾皆死、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 蓋基督之仁愛、有使吾人欲罷不能者焉。竊思一人既代眾死、則眾人實已與之偕死。
Nueva Versión Internacional - El amor de Cristo nos obliga, porque estamos convencidos de que uno murió por todos, y por consiguiente todos murieron.
현대인의 성경 - 이것은 그리스도의 사랑이 우리를 지배하고 있기 때문입니다. 한 사람이 모든 사람을 대신하여 죽었으므로 모든 사람이 죽은 것이라고 우리는 확신합니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Любовь Христа движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Один умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли.
Восточный перевод - Любовь Масиха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Масих умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Любовь аль-Масиха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз аль-Масих умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Любовь Масеха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Масех умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, l’amour de Christ nous étreint, car nous avons acquis la certitude qu’un seul homme est mort pour tous : donc tous sont morts en lui.
Nestle Aland 28 - ἡ γὰρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέχει ἡμᾶς, κρίναντας τοῦτο, ὅτι εἷς ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀπέθανεν, ἄρα οἱ πάντες ἀπέθανον·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἡ γὰρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέχει ἡμᾶς, κρίναντας τοῦτο, ὅτι εἷς ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀπέθανεν, ἄρα οἱ πάντες ἀπέθανον.
Nova Versão Internacional - Pois o amor de Cristo nos constrange, porque estamos convencidos de que um morreu por todos; logo, todos morreram.
Hoffnung für alle - Was wir auch tun, wir tun es aus der Liebe, die Christus uns geschenkt hat – sie lässt uns keine andere Wahl. Wir sind davon überzeugt: Weil einer für alle Menschen starb, sind sie alle gestorben.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Do tình yêu thương của Chúa Cứu Thế cảm thúc, chúng tôi nghĩ rằng Chúa đã chết cho mọi người, nên mọi người phải coi đời cũ mình như đã chết.
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交叉引用

Acts 18:5 - When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was able to give all his time to preaching and teaching, doing everything he could to persuade the Jews that Jesus was in fact God’s Messiah. But no such luck. All they did was argue contentiously and contradict him at every turn. Totally exasperated, Paul had finally had it with them and gave it up as a bad job. “Have it your way, then,” he said. “You’ve made your bed; now lie in it. From now on I’m spending my time with the other nations.”
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
1 Corinthians 2:14 - The unspiritual self, just as it is by nature, can’t receive the gifts of God’s Spirit. There’s no capacity for them. They seem like so much silliness. Spirit can be known only by spirit—God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God’s Spirit is doing, and can’t be judged by unspiritual critics. Isaiah’s question, “Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?” has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit. * * *
1 John 2:1 - I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s.
1 John 2:2 - Here’s how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.
John 5:25 - “It’s urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment.
Song of Songs 1:4 - Take me away with you! Let’s run off together! An elopement with my King-Lover! We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing, we’ll make great music. Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine. Everyone loves you—of course! And why not?
Song of Songs 8:6 - Hang my locket around your neck, wear my ring on your finger. Love is invincible facing danger and death. Passion laughs at the terrors of hell. The fire of love stops at nothing— it sweeps everything before it. Flood waters can’t drown love, torrents of rain can’t put it out. Love can’t be bought, love can’t be sold— it’s not to be found in the marketplace. My brothers used to worry about me:
John 11:25 - “You don’t have to wait for the End. I am, right now, Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live. And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”
Titus 3:3 - It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, easy marks for sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.
Ephesians 2:1 - It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
2 Corinthians 3:9 - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
2 Corinthians 8:8 - I’m not trying to order you around against your will. But by bringing in the Macedonians’ enthusiasm as a stimulus to your love, I am hoping to bring the best out of you. You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us—in one stroke he became poor and we became rich.
John 21:15 - After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Master, you know I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16 - He then asked a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” “Yes, Master, you know I love you.” Jesus said, “Shepherd my sheep.”
John 21:17 - Then he said it a third time: “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was upset that he asked for the third time, “Do you love me?” so he answered, “Master, you know everything there is to know. You’ve got to know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. I’m telling you the very truth now: When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wished, but when you get old you’ll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And then he commanded, “Follow me.”
Luke 7:43 - Simon answered, “I suppose the one who was forgiven the most.” “That’s right,” said Jesus. Then turning to the woman, but speaking to Simon, he said, “Do you see this woman? I came to your home; you provided no water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet and dried them with her hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I arrived she hasn’t quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume. Impressive, isn’t it? She was forgiven many, many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is minimal.”
John 1:29 - The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’ I knew nothing about who he was—only this: that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer. That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God.”
John 14:21 - “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
John 14:22 - Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
John 14:23 - “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
1 Corinthians 16:22 - If anyone won’t love the Master, throw him out. Make room for the Master!
1 Peter 1:8 - You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him—with laughter and singing. Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.
Romans 5:15 - Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Matthew 10:38 - “If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.

逐节对照

交叉引用

The Message - Our firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.
新标点和合本 - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们想，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们这样断定，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们这样断定，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
当代译本 - 因为基督的爱激励我们，因为我们确信：基督一人既代替众人死了，众人就都死了。
圣经新译本 - 原来基督的爱催逼着我们，因为我们断定一个人替众人死了，众人就都死了。
中文标准译本 - 实际上，基督的爱催逼着我们，因为我们如此判定：既然一个人替所有的人死了，所有的人就都死了；
现代标点和合本 - 原来基督的爱激励我们，因我们想：一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
和合本（拼音版） - 原来基督的爱激励我们。因我们想，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了；
New International Version - For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
New International Reader's Version - Christ’s love controls us. We are sure that one person died for everyone. And so everyone died.
English Standard Version - For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
New Living Translation - Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
Christian Standard Bible - For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
New American Standard Bible - For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
New King James Version - For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
Amplified Bible - For the love of Christ controls and compels us, because we have concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;
American Standard Version - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
King James Version - For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
New English Translation - For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.
World English Bible - For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
新標點和合本 - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們想，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們這樣斷定，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們這樣斷定，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
當代譯本 - 因為基督的愛激勵我們，因為我們確信：基督一人既代替眾人死了，眾人就都死了。
聖經新譯本 - 原來基督的愛催逼著我們，因為我們斷定一個人替眾人死了，眾人就都死了。
呂振中譯本 - 基督的愛催迫着我們；我們斷定：一個人既替眾人死了，眾人就都是死了。
中文標準譯本 - 實際上，基督的愛催逼著我們，因為我們如此判定：既然一個人替所有的人死了，所有的人就都死了；
現代標點和合本 - 原來基督的愛激勵我們，因我們想：一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了；
文理和合譯本 - 蓋基督之愛策我矣、竊思一人為眾死、則眾已死、
文理委辦譯本 - 基督之愛策我矣、竊思一人為眾死、則其眾當死、明矣、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 基督之愛勉勵我、因我思一人既代眾死、則眾皆死、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 蓋基督之仁愛、有使吾人欲罷不能者焉。竊思一人既代眾死、則眾人實已與之偕死。
Nueva Versión Internacional - El amor de Cristo nos obliga, porque estamos convencidos de que uno murió por todos, y por consiguiente todos murieron.
현대인의 성경 - 이것은 그리스도의 사랑이 우리를 지배하고 있기 때문입니다. 한 사람이 모든 사람을 대신하여 죽었으므로 모든 사람이 죽은 것이라고 우리는 확신합니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Любовь Христа движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Один умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли.
Восточный перевод - Любовь Масиха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Масих умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Любовь аль-Масиха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз аль-Масих умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Любовь Масеха движет нами, потому что мы убеждены в том, что раз Масех умер за всех, то, значит, все умерли для греховной жизни.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, l’amour de Christ nous étreint, car nous avons acquis la certitude qu’un seul homme est mort pour tous : donc tous sont morts en lui.
Nestle Aland 28 - ἡ γὰρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέχει ἡμᾶς, κρίναντας τοῦτο, ὅτι εἷς ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀπέθανεν, ἄρα οἱ πάντες ἀπέθανον·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἡ γὰρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέχει ἡμᾶς, κρίναντας τοῦτο, ὅτι εἷς ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀπέθανεν, ἄρα οἱ πάντες ἀπέθανον.
Nova Versão Internacional - Pois o amor de Cristo nos constrange, porque estamos convencidos de que um morreu por todos; logo, todos morreram.
Hoffnung für alle - Was wir auch tun, wir tun es aus der Liebe, die Christus uns geschenkt hat – sie lässt uns keine andere Wahl. Wir sind davon überzeugt: Weil einer für alle Menschen starb, sind sie alle gestorben.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Do tình yêu thương của Chúa Cứu Thế cảm thúc, chúng tôi nghĩ rằng Chúa đã chết cho mọi người, nên mọi người phải coi đời cũ mình như đã chết.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เพราะความรักของพระคริสต์ผลักดันเราอยู่ เพราะเรามั่นใจว่าผู้หนึ่งได้ตายเพื่อคนทั้งปวง ฉะนั้นคนทั้งปวงจึงตายแล้ว
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ด้วยว่าความรักของพระคริสต์ครอบครองเรา เพราะเราสรุปความว่าผู้หนึ่งได้สิ้นชีวิตเพื่อทุกคน ดังนั้นชีวิตเก่าของทุกคนจึงสิ้นไป

Acts 18:5 - When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was able to give all his time to preaching and teaching, doing everything he could to persuade the Jews that Jesus was in fact God’s Messiah. But no such luck. All they did was argue contentiously and contradict him at every turn. Totally exasperated, Paul had finally had it with them and gave it up as a bad job. “Have it your way, then,” he said. “You’ve made your bed; now lie in it. From now on I’m spending my time with the other nations.”
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
1 Corinthians 2:14 - The unspiritual self, just as it is by nature, can’t receive the gifts of God’s Spirit. There’s no capacity for them. They seem like so much silliness. Spirit can be known only by spirit—God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God’s Spirit is doing, and can’t be judged by unspiritual critics. Isaiah’s question, “Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?” has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit. * * *
1 John 2:1 - I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s.
1 John 2:2 - Here’s how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.
John 5:25 - “It’s urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment.
Song of Songs 1:4 - Take me away with you! Let’s run off together! An elopement with my King-Lover! We’ll celebrate, we’ll sing, we’ll make great music. Yes! For your love is better than vintage wine. Everyone loves you—of course! And why not?
Song of Songs 8:6 - Hang my locket around your neck, wear my ring on your finger. Love is invincible facing danger and death. Passion laughs at the terrors of hell. The fire of love stops at nothing— it sweeps everything before it. Flood waters can’t drown love, torrents of rain can’t put it out. Love can’t be bought, love can’t be sold— it’s not to be found in the marketplace. My brothers used to worry about me:
John 11:25 - “You don’t have to wait for the End. I am, right now, Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live. And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”
Titus 3:3 - It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, easy marks for sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.
Ephesians 2:1 - It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
2 Corinthians 3:9 - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
2 Corinthians 8:8 - I’m not trying to order you around against your will. But by bringing in the Macedonians’ enthusiasm as a stimulus to your love, I am hoping to bring the best out of you. You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us—in one stroke he became poor and we became rich.
John 21:15 - After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Master, you know I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16 - He then asked a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” “Yes, Master, you know I love you.” Jesus said, “Shepherd my sheep.”
John 21:17 - Then he said it a third time: “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was upset that he asked for the third time, “Do you love me?” so he answered, “Master, you know everything there is to know. You’ve got to know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. I’m telling you the very truth now: When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wished, but when you get old you’ll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And then he commanded, “Follow me.”
Luke 7:43 - Simon answered, “I suppose the one who was forgiven the most.” “That’s right,” said Jesus. Then turning to the woman, but speaking to Simon, he said, “Do you see this woman? I came to your home; you provided no water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet and dried them with her hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I arrived she hasn’t quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume. Impressive, isn’t it? She was forgiven many, many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is minimal.”
John 1:29 - The very next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and yelled out, “Here he is, God’s Passover Lamb! He forgives the sins of the world! This is the man I’ve been talking about, ‘the One who comes after me but is really ahead of me.’ I knew nothing about who he was—only this: that my task has been to get Israel ready to recognize him as the God-Revealer. That is why I came here baptizing with water, giving you a good bath and scrubbing sins from your life so you can get a fresh start with God.”
John 14:21 - “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
John 14:22 - Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
John 14:23 - “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
1 Corinthians 16:22 - If anyone won’t love the Master, throw him out. Make room for the Master!
1 Peter 1:8 - You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him—with laughter and singing. Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.
Romans 5:15 - Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Matthew 10:38 - “If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.