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, and none dies to himself.
• 1 Pet 4:2–4that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• 1 Pet 1:14–15as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Col 3:1If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
• Col 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
• Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• 1 Jn 4:9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• 1 Cor 6:19–20Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• Gal 5:25If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
• Phil 1:20–21according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• 1 Pet 4:6For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
• Rom 6:6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
• Luke 1:74to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
• 1 Th 5:10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
• Rom 6:11–13Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
• Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
• 2 Cor 5:16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
• Col 3:23And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
• Rom 8:6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
• Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
• 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• Zech 10:9I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.
• Ezek 37:14I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
• John 3:15–16that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Rom 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Ezek 37:9Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Ezek 16:6“‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
• 2 Kgs 5:17Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

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