2 Corinthians 5

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1. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

   The Distinctive Doctrine of Protestantism: Justification by Faith cites 2 Cor. 5:21

   …ho his own self bare our sins in his own body upon the tree." Or as Paul puts it again in 2 Cor. 5:21, "Him who knew no sin he (God) made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the rig…

2. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

   Sermon I cites 2 Cor. v. 17

   …ly, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”—2 Cor. v. 17. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold, all …

3. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

   The New Birth cites 2 Cor. 5:17

   …pest springs of thought, feeling and action. A change so thorough-going that Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:17, "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature (more exactly, Creation): the old things …

4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   On Sin in Believers cites 2 Cor. 5:17

   Sermon 13 On Sin in Believers “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.” 2 Cor. 5:17. I. 1. Is there then sin in him that is in Christ? Does sin remain in one that believes i…

5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites 2 Cor 5: 1

   …r the heavenly building. The house of bondage prepares for the house not made with hands. 2 Cor 5: 1: The vessels of mercy are seasoned with affliction, and then the wine of glory is poured …

6. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

   Introduction cites 2 Cor. v. 1

   …ssolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Cor. v. 1). The Lord does not leave His people at uncertainties in matters of salvation. The apostl…

7. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

   The First Stage cites 2 Cor. 5:2

   … Lord of the place, John 12:25; all well, and clothed with immortality as with a garment. 2 Cor. 5:2. Pliable: The hearing of this is enough to ravish one’s heart. But are these things to be…

8. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

   XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites 2 Cor. 5:5

   …. So when the apostle speaks of the earnest of the Spirit, which God had given to him, in 2 Cor. 5:5, the context shows plainly that he has respect to what was given him in his great trials …

9. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

   Thoughtfulness of the excellency of the majesty of God cites 2 Cor. v. 7

   …m of our obedience or coming to him), is believing. “We walk by faith, and not by sight,” 2 Cor. v. 7; — Διὰ πίστεως οὐ διὰ εἴδους· by faith, and so by faith as not to have any express idea, …

10. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Controversy cites 2 Corinthians 5:7

    …faith outlined in 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and further, what is the walk of faith mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5:7? Since, “it is impossible to please God without faith” (Hebrews 11:6), the desire of ever…

11. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    We can please God in no state or employment of life, but by intending and devoting it all to His honour and glory cites 2 Cor. v. 7

    …f "we are to live by faith, and not by sight," and to "have our conversation in heaven"; [2 Cor. v. 7; Phil. iii. 20] then it is necessary that the common way of our life, in every state, be …

12. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Difference Between Walking by Sight, and Walking by Faith cites 2 Cor. 5:7

    …fference Between Walking by Sight, and Walking by Faith “We walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Cor. 5:7. 1. How short is this description of real Christians! And yet how exceeding full! It comp…

13. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Gladys Aylward — The Unlikely Missionary Who Walked by Faith cites 2 Corinthians 5:7

    …e of her prayers. She lived out Paul’s declaration: “For we live by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7, NIV). She could not see the whole path. She could not understand the whole plan. But she…

14. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites 2 Cor. v. 7

    …leth” (1 Cor. xiii. 8). Faith is the staff we walk with in this life. “We walk by faith” (2 Cor. v. 7). But we shall leave this staff at heaven’s door, and only love shall enter. Thus love ca…

15. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: Prayers in God’s Word cites 2 Corinthians 5:7

    …own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7 — “For we live by faith, not by sight.” Chapter 10 — Evelyn Christenson James 5:16 — “The…

16. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites 2 Cor. 5:7

    …rom the Delectable Mountains the gate of the city? Also, are we not now to walk by faith? 2 Cor. 5:7. Let us go on, lest the man with the whip overtake us again. You should have taught me th…

17. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    Recommending devotion at twelve o'clock, called in Scripture the sixth hour of the day. This frequency of devotion equally desirable by all orders of people. Universal love is here recommended to be the subject of prayer at this hour. Of intercession, as an act of universal love cites 2 Cor. v. 10

    …the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." [2 Cor. v. 10] Now if your estate would excuse you from appearing before this judgment-seat, if your fi…

18. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    Is Future Punishment Everlasting? cites 2 Cor. 5:10

    …what the Bible teaches and not merely trying to support a theory. 1. The first passage in 2 Cor. 5:10: "For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may …

19. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    Part I. Concerning the nature of the affections and their importance in religion cites 2 Cor. 5:14

    …re compelled by it to go forward in his service, through all difficulties and sufferings, 2 Cor. 5:14, 15. And his epistles are full of expressions of an overpowering affection towards the pe…

20. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Catherine Booth — The Preacher Who Took the Gospel to the Streets cites 2 Corinthians 5:14–15

    …should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again” (2 Corinthians 5:14–15, NIV). She had been seized by that love, and it never let her go. Her legacy is the globa…

21. Women Who Moved Heaven · Ochorus Originals

    Lottie Moon — The Woman Who Gave Everything to China cites 2 Corinthians 5:14

    …love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died” (2 Corinthians 5:14, NIV). She was compelled. Not by guilt, not by duty, but by love. The love of Christ for …

22. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

    Ye are the Branches cites 2 Cor. 5:14

    …he Holy Spirit” (Rom. 5:5); and of that other word: “The love of Christ constraineth us” (2 Cor. 5:14). Christ can give you a fountain of love, so that you cannot help loving the most wretche…

23. Men and Women Who Gave Everything · Ochorus Originals

    Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Missional Life cites 2 Corinthians 5:14–15

    …rson? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 2 Corinthians 5:14–15 — “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and ther…

24. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites 2 Cor. v. 14

    …God, the feet a running in the ways of His commandments. “The love of Christ constrains” (2 Cor. v. 14). Pretences of love are insufficient. True love is not only seen at the tongue’s end, but…

25. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    October cites 2 Corinthians 5:14

    … glorify his Father which is in heaven. October 21 “The love of Christ constraineth us.” (2 Corinthians 5:14) How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has he ever done anything for thee? Has he forgiven th…

26. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    April cites 2 Cor. v. 14

    …not from fear, but from love.—Alex. McLaren. April 24 The love of Christ constraineth us. 2 Cor. v. 14. The love of Christ is too large for any heart to hold it. It will overflow into others' …

27. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Knowing Christ after the Flesh cites 2 Cor. 5:15

    … own honour, or profit, or pleasure, “but unto him,” in righteousness and true holiness. (2 Cor. 5:15) “So that we from this time,” we that know him by faith, “know no one,” either the rest o…

28. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life · William Law

    Showing how difficult the practice of humility is made, by the general spirit and temper of the world. How Christianity requireth us to live contrary to the world cites 2 Cor. v. 16

    …t, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." [2 Cor. v. 16, 17] He that feels the force and spirit of these words, can hardly bear any human interpr…

29. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IV. Gracious affections do arise from the mind's being enlightened, richly and spiritually to understand or apprehend divine things cites 2 Cor. 5:16

    …new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new;" agreeable to 2 Cor. 5:16, 17. And besides the things that have been already mentioned, there arises from this sens…

30. Prayer – The Pulse of Life · Hannah Buyinza

    Praying in the Spirit cites 2 Corinthians 5:17

    …ead, that person will be saved (Romans 10:8-9). This man is then separated from the rest. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; …

31. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon II cites 2 Cor. v. 17

    …, and the following verses, and in the 18th of Ezekiel, as plain as can be spoken. And in 2 Cor. v. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, you have the very sum of our commission. “If any man be in Christ, he is…

32. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Christian Perfection cites 2 Cor. 5:17

    … but not out of the mouth of the Apostle, nor of anyone who is in Christ a new creature. [2 Cor. 5:17] Secondly, from the verse immediately preceding the text, and manifestly connected with i…

33. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    Being part 2d of his public journal of the Continuance and Progress of a remarkable work of grace among the Indians in New-Jersey and Pennsylvania kept by order of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge.—Renewal of labor at Crossweeksung—outpouring of the spirit—remarkable case— cites 2 Cor. 5:17

    …ere quickened by means of it. June 13.—“Preached to my people upon the new creature, from 2 Cor. 5:17. The presence of God appeared to be in the assembly. It was a sweet and agreeable meeting…

34. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    The Wounded Soul cites 2 Corinthians 5:17

    …e is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). This verse was used to challenge me concerning the little things of the old nature that…

35. How to Bring Men to Christ · R. A. Torrey

    Dealing with the Willful and the Deluded cites 2 Cor. v. 17

    …ws the necessity of the new birth. What the new birth is, is shown in Ezek. xxxvi. 25‒27; 2 Cor. v. 17; 2 Peter i. 4. Many Roman Catholics understand the new birth to mean baptism, but it can …

36. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    God Glorified in Man’s Dependence cites 2 Cor. v. 17

    …the new nature. ’Tis a work of creation: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature,” 2 Cor. v. 17. “We are created in Christ Jesus,” Eph. ii. 10. The fallen creature cannot attain to true…

37. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer as Noble Action cites 2 Cor. v. 17

    …ist, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new” (2 Cor. v. 17). This can only be brought about by the death of ourselves and of our own action, that th…

38. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    The Conversion of Watchman Nee cites 2 Corinthians 5:17

    …rist, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, ASV). This conviction shaped Nee's understanding of regeneration. The Christian life beg…

39. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Sit: Our Position in Christ cites 2 Corinthians 5:17

    …ce define their new position. Paul says, “if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17, ASV). The gospel is therefore not merely Christ doing something for people at a distance…

40. The Key in My Hand · Gareth Evans

    The Devices of Satan cites 2 Corinthians 5:17

    …s handiwork (Ephesians 2:10). ● A citizen of Heaven (Philippians 3:20). ● A new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). ● Chosen by God (Colossians 3:12). ● A saint (Ephesians 1:1). ● A stranger to this worl…

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