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2 Cor. 5:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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• (Song of Sol. 8:6)

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Rom. 5:15• ¹⁵But [shall] not, as the offence, so also [be] the free gift? for if by the offence of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound unto the many. (Rom. 5:15)

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the love.

2 Cor. 8:8‑9• ⁸I speak not by way of commandment, but through the diligence of others proving the genuineness of your love also.
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 become rich. (2 Cor. 8:8‑9)

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Song of Sol. 1:4• (Song of Sol. 1:4)

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Song of Sol. 8:6‑7• (Song of Sol. 8:6‑7)

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Matt. 10:37‑38• ³⁷{i}He 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.{/i}
³⁸{i}And he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.{/i} (Matt. 10:37‑38)

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Luke 7:42‑47• ⁴²{i}but as they had nothing to pay, he{/i} forgave both of them [their debt]: {i}[say,] which of them therefore will love him most?{/i}
⁴³{i}And Simon answering said,{/i} I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. {i}And he said to him,{/i} Thou hast rightly judged.
⁴⁴And turning to the woman he said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me no water for my feet, but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair.
⁴⁵Thou gavest me no kiss, but she, from the time I came in, hath not ceased kissing my feet;
⁴⁶my head with oil thou didst not anoint, but she hath anointed my feet with myrrh.
⁴⁷For which cause I say unto thee, Her many sins are forgiven, for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loveth little. (Luke 7:42‑47)

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John 14:21‑23• ²¹He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; but he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
²²Judas, not the Iscariot, saith to him, Lord, [and] how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?
²³Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto 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 saith to Simon Peter, Simon [son] of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I dearly love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.
¹⁶He saith to him again a second time, Simon [son] of Jonah, lovest thou me? He saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I dearly love thee. He saith to him, Tend my sheep.
¹⁷He saith to him the third time, Simon [son] of Jonah, dost thou dearly love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Dost thou dearly love me? and he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I dearly love thee. Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep. (John 21:15‑17)

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1 Cor. 16:22• ²²If anyone loveth not the Lord [Jesus Christ], let him be anathema maranatha. (1 Cor. 16:22)

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Eph. 3:18‑19• ¹⁸being in love rooted and grounded that ye may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;
¹⁹and to know the love of the Christ that surpasseth knowledge, that ye may be filled to all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:18‑19)

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Eph. 6:24• ²⁴grace with all 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 showed unto his name, in that ye ministered to his saints and do minister. (Heb. 6:10)

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1 Peter 1:8• ⁸whom, having not seen, ye love; in whom, though not now seeing but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and glorified, (1 Peter 1:8)

constraineth.

Job 32:18• (Job 32:18)

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Luke 24:29• ²⁹And they forced him, saying, Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is sunk low. And he went in to abide with them. (Luke 24:29)

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Acts 4:19‑20• ¹⁹But Peter and John answering said unto them, Whether it be right before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye:
²⁰for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard. (Acts 4:19‑20)

because.

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

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

one.

Isa. 53:6• (Isa. 53:6)

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

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)

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

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

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Heb. 2:9• ⁹but we behold Jesus that was made some little less than angels on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour; so that by God's grace he should taste of death for everything. (Heb. 2:9)

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1 John 2:1‑2• ¹My dear children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And if anyone sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous;
²and he is [the] propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, 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 letter, graven on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently toward the face of Moses for the glory of his face, that was to be done away,
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation [have] glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness abound 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 be merry.
³²{i}But{/i} 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 to you, 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 believeth on me, though he have died, shall live; (John 11:25)

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Rom. 5:15• ¹⁵But [shall] not, as the offence, so also [be] the free gift? for if by the offence of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound unto the many. (Rom. 5:15)

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Rom. 14:7‑9• ⁷For none of us liveth to himself and none dieth to himself;
⁸for both if we should live, to the Lord we live, and if we die, to the Lord we die; therefore, both if we should live and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
⁹For unto this [end] Christ died and lived, that he might be Lord both of dead and living. (Rom. 14:7‑9)

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Eph. 2:1‑5• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your 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 that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest;
⁴but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved), (Eph. 2:1‑5)

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

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that devoteth herself to pleasure is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, 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 lieth 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;

JND Translation Notes

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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;

WK Translation Notes

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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."