2 Corinthians 5:11

Knowing the Lord is to be feared, Paul earnestly seeks to persuade people, his sincerity open before God. Reverence for God drives honest, persuasive ministry.

Cross-references · 36

• Jude 1:23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• Heb 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• 2 Tim 2:24–26The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
• 2 Cor 4:1–2Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• Luke 12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
• Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• 2 Cor 5:20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
• Acts 18:13saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
• 2 Cor 1:12–14For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• Ps 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
• Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
• Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
• 1 Th 2:3–12For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
• Mark 9:43–50If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
• Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
• Matt 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
• Acts 19:26You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
• Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
• 1 Cor 4:4–5For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
• Acts 28:23When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
• Gen 35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
• Acts 20:18–27When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
• Ps 88:15–16I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
• Acts 26:26For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
• Luke 16:31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”
• Col 1:28–29whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
• Mark 8:35–38For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Acts 13:43Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
• Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
• Acts 18:4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
• Gal 1:10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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