2 Corinthians 5:20

Believers are Christ's ambassadors, through whom God appeals to people to be reconciled to Him. The gospel is God's own plea for sinners to return.

Cross-references · 25

• Eph 6:20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Luke 14:23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
• Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Luke 10:16He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
• John 20:21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
• 2 Cor 5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
• 2 Cor 3:6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
• 1 Th 4:8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
• Acts 26:17–18Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
• Jer 38:20But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
• Job 22:21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
• Prov 1:22–33How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Jer 13:16–17Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Isa 27:5Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
• 1 Cor 4:4–5For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• Prov 13:17A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
• 2 Chr 36:15And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
• Job 33:6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
• Job 33:23If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
• Jer 44:4Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
• Neh 9:29And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
• 2 Kgs 17:13Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

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