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2 Corinthians 5

2 Cor. 5:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
hoste (Greek #5620)
so too, i.e. thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as follow)
KJV usage: (insomuch) as, so that (then), (insomuch) that, therefore, to, wherefore.
Pronounce: hoce'-teh
Origin: from 5613 and 5037
if
ei (Greek #1487)
if, whether, that, etc.
KJV usage: forasmuch as, if, that, (al-)though, whether. Often used in connection or composition with other particles, especially as in 1489, 1490, 1499, 1508, 1509, 1512, 1513, 1536, 1537. See also 1437.
Pronounce: i
Origin: a primary particle of conditionality
any man
tis (Greek #5100)
some or any person or object
KJV usage: a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).
Pronounce: tis
Origin: an enclitic indefinite pronoun
be in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
Christ
Christos (Greek #5547)
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
KJV usage: Christ.
Pronounce: khris-tos'
Origin: from 5548
, βhe is a new
kainos (Greek #2537)
new (especially in freshness; while 3501 is properly so with respect to age
KJV usage: new.
Pronounce: kahee-nos'
Origin: of uncertain affinity
creature
ktisis (Greek #2937)
original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: building, creation, creature, ordinance.
Pronounce: ktis'-is
Origin: from 2936
i: old things
archaios (Greek #744)
original or primeval
KJV usage: (them of) old (time).
Pronounce: ar-khah'-yos
Origin: from 746
are passed away
parerchomai (Greek #3928)
to come near or aside, i.e. to approach (arrive), go by (or away), (figuratively) perish or neglect, (causative) avert
KJV usage: come (forth), go, pass (away, by, over), past, transgress.
Pronounce: par-er'-khom-ahee
Origin: from 3844 and 2064
; behold
idou (Greek #2400)
second person singular imperative middle voice of 1492; used as imperative lo!; --behold, lo, see.
Pronounce: id-oo'
j, all things
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
are become
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
new
kainos (Greek #2537)
new (especially in freshness; while 3501 is properly so with respect to age
KJV usage: new.
Pronounce: kahee-nos'
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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β
let him be.
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John 3:3• 3Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3)
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Gal. 6:15• 15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision; but new creation. (Gal. 6:15)
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Isa. 65:17• 17For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (Isa. 65:17)
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Rev. 21:5• 5And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. (Rev. 21:5)

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Christ,
New Creation; New Creature,
The New Creation

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Cor. 5:19,21• 19how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.
 21Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:19,21)
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2 Cor. 12:2• 2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven. (2 Cor. 12:2)
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Isa. 45:17,24‑25• 17Israel shall be saved by Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, unto the ages of ages.
 24Only in Jehovah, shall one say, have I righteousness and strength. To him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
 25In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. (Isa. 45:17,24‑25)
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John 14:20• 20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20)
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John 15:2,5• 2As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
 5I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. (John 15:2,5)
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John 17:23• 23I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)
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Rom. 8:1,9• 1There is then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
 9But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him: (Rom. 8:1,9)
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Rom. 16:7,11• 7Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.
 11Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in the Lord. (Rom. 16:7,11)
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1 Cor. 1:30• 30But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; (1 Cor. 1:30)
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Gal. 3:28• 28There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus: (Gal. 3:28)
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Gal. 5:6• 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:6)
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Eph. 1:3‑4• 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
 4according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love; (Eph. 1:3‑4)
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Phil. 4:21• 21Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you. (Phil. 4:21)
he is.
or, let him be.
a new.
Psa. 51:10• 10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (Psa. 51:10)
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Ezek. 11:19• 19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; (Ezek. 11:19)
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Ezek. 18:31• 31Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel? (Ezek. 18:31)
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Ezek. 36:26• 26And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. (Ezek. 36:26)
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Matt. 12:33• 33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known. (Matt. 12:33)
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John 3:3,5• 3Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God.
 5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:3,5)
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Gal. 6:15• 15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision; but new creation. (Gal. 6:15)
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Eph. 2:10• 10For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them. (Eph. 2:10)
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2 Cor. 5:16• 16So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. (2 Cor. 5:16)
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Isa. 43:18‑19• 18--Remember not the former things, neither consider the ancient things:
 19behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste. (Isa. 43:18‑19)
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Isa. 65:17‑18• 17For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
 18But be glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. (Isa. 65:17‑18)
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Matt. 9:16‑17• 16But no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, for its filling up takes from the garment and a worse rent takes place.
 17Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together. (Matt. 9:16‑17)
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Matt. 24:35• 35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away. (Matt. 24:35)
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Rom. 6:4‑6• 4We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.
 5For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;
 6knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin. (Rom. 6:4‑6)
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Rom. 7:6• 6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter. (Rom. 7:6)
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Rom. 8:9• 9But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him: (Rom. 8:9)
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Rom. 8:10• 10but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness. (Rom. 8:10)
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1 Cor. 13:11• 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child. (1 Cor. 13:11)
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Eph. 2:15• 15having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace; (Eph. 2:15)
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Eph. 4:22‑24• 22namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
 23and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 24and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness. (Eph. 4:22‑24)
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Phil. 3:7‑9• 7but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.
 8But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;
 9and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith, (Phil. 3:7‑9)
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Col. 3:1‑10• 1If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:
 2have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;
 3for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
 4When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall *ye* also be manifested with him in glory.
 5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
 6On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
 7In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
 8But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
 9Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,
 10and having put on the new, renewed into full knowledge according to the image of him that has created him; (Col. 3:1‑10)
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Heb. 8:9‑13• 9not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith the Lord.
 10Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.
 11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.
 12Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
 13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing. (Heb. 8:9‑13)
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2 Peter 3:10‑13• 10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
 11All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?
 13But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. (2 Peter 3:10‑13)
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Rev. 21:1‑5• 1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists no more.
 2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
 3And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall tabernacle with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.
 4And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away.
 5And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. (Rev. 21:1‑5)
• “If any man be in Christ—a new creation.” It is one short absolute sentence. It brings in the new heavens and the new earth—everything to be made new. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5” by J.N. Darby)
• It is no question, as so many make it, of examining ourselves within and seeing how completely we are changed in principles and path as well as spirit and end, since we believed in Christ, though there is a vital change and self-judgment be incumbent on us. It is what faith knows and can say, because of being “in Christ” and knowing Him only as risen. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 5:16-17” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

W. Kelly Translation

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so that, if one [is] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, theya are become new.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, "all things." The T. R. with most adds "all things," but not the very ancient.