2 Corinthians 5:15

Christ died and rose so that believers would live for Him rather than for themselves. His death redirects the whole purpose of our lives.

Cross-references · 39

• Rom 14:7–9For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
• 1 Pet 4:2–4Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• 1 Pet 1:14–15As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Col 3:1Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
• Col 3:17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
• Gal 2:19–20For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• 1 Jn 4:9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1 Cor 6:19–20Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
• Gal 5:25Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
• Phil 1:20–21I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
• 1 Pet 4:6That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
• Rom 6:6We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
• Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
• 1 Th 5:10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
• Rom 6:11–13So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Cor 10:33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
• Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• 2 Cor 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
• Col 3:23Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,
• Rom 8:6The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
• Col 2:12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
• Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• John 6:57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
• 2 Cor 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Hab 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Zech 10:9Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
• Ezek 37:14I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
• John 3:15–16that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Ezek 37:9Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Ezek 16:6Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
• 2 Kgs 5:17“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.

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