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

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Song of Sol. 8:6• ⁶Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah. (Song of Sol. 8:6)

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Rom. 5:15• ¹⁵But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many. (Rom. 5:15)

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the love.

2 Cor. 8:8‑9• ⁸I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.
⁹For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that *ye* by *his* poverty might be enriched. (2 Cor. 8:8‑9)

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Song of Sol. 1:4• ⁴Draw me, we will run after thee!--The king hath brought me into his chambers--We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly. (Song of Sol. 1:4)

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Song of Sol. 8:6‑7• ⁶Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah.
⁷Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned. (Song of Sol. 8:6‑7)

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Matt. 10:37‑38• ³⁷He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
³⁸And he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. (Matt. 10:37‑38)

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Luke 7:42‑47• ⁴²but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them their debt: say, which of them therefore will love him most?
⁴³And Simon answering said, I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. And he said to him, Thou hast rightly judged.
⁴⁴And turning to the woman he said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me not water on my feet, but *she* has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair.
⁴⁵Thou gavest me not a kiss, but *she* from the time I came in has not ceased kissing my feet.
⁴⁶My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but *she* has anointed my feet with myrrh.
⁴⁷For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little. (Luke 7:42‑47)

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John 14:21‑23• ²¹He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
²²Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?
²³Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. (John 14:21‑23)

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John 21:15‑17• ¹⁵When therefore they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶He says to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He says to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.
¹⁷He says to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, art thou attached to me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Art thou attached to me? and said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I am attached to thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep. (John 21:15‑17)

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1 Cor. 16:22• ²²If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha. (1 Cor. 16:22)

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Eph. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

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Eph. 6:24• ²⁴Grace with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. (Eph. 6:24)

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Heb. 6:10• ¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye have shewn to his name, having ministered to the saints, and still ministering. (Heb. 6:10)

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1 Peter 1:8• ⁸whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory, (1 Peter 1:8)

constraineth.

Job 32:18• ¹⁸For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. (Job 32:18)

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Luke 24:29• ²⁹And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them. (Luke 24:29)

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Acts 4:19‑20• ¹⁹But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;
²⁰for as for us *we* cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard. (Acts 4:19‑20)

because.

Rom. 2:2• ²But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things. (Rom. 2:2)

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1 Cor. 2:14• ¹⁴But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; (1 Cor. 2:14)

one.

Isa. 53:6• ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)

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Matt. 20:28• ²⁸as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:28)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

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John 11:50‑52• ⁵⁰nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
⁵¹But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad. (John 11:50‑52)

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1 Tim. 2:6• ⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times; (1 Tim. 2:6)

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Heb. 2:9• ⁹but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing. (Heb. 2:9)

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1 John 2:1‑2• ¹My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
²and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:1‑2)

then.

2 Cor. 3:7,9• ⁷(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7,9)

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Luke 15:24,32• ²⁴for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.
³²But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found. (Luke 15:24,32)

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John 5:25• ²⁵Verily, verily, I say unto you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that have heard shall live. (John 5:25)

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John 11:25• ²⁵Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live; (John 11:25)

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Rom. 5:15• ¹⁵But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many. (Rom. 5:15)

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Rom. 14:7‑9• ⁷For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
⁸For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
⁹For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living. (Rom. 14:7‑9)

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Eph. 2:1‑5• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins--
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,) (Eph. 2:1‑5)

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Col. 2:13• ¹³And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences; (Col. 2:13)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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1 John 5:19• ¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked one. (1 John 5:19)

• The love of this same Jesus was strengthened in its active operation in him by the sense of the tribunal which awaits all men. (“2 Corinthians 5” by J.N. Darby)

• Christ's death for all is the proof that it was all over with mankind. If He went down in grace to the grave, it was just because they were already there, and none otherwise could be delivered. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:12-15” by W. Kelly)

• Death spiritually, not physically, is in question. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:12-15” by W. Kelly)

• We may not see the evidence of the constraining power of Christ’s love in the lives of all believers, as we do in Paul, but this is not because His love lacks the power to move them; it’s because they don’t live close enough to Him to feel its constraining effect. Like a huge magnet with plenty of drawing power, it will not pick up the smallest iron object if the object is too far away from the magnet. (“Reasons for This Session: 2 Corinthians 5:9-10” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have diedc;

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Or "had died." It is the aorist, and refers to the state Christ's death proved them to be in, in a state of nature. To make it a consequence of Christ's death is, I judge, an utter blunder.

W. Kelly Translation

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For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that ifa one died for all, then they all were deadb;

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a

The mass of authority and of the highest character omits "if," which T. R. has. It seems a mere slip to omit it, because of the word "one" following.

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Or, "died."