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.

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• Eph 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Luke 14:23“The lord said to 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 Yahweh of Armies.
• Ezek 18:31–32Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
• John 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• 2 Cor 5:11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
• 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.
• 1 Th 4:8Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Jer 38:20But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul shall live.
• Job 22:21“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
• Prov 1:22–33“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Jer 13:16–17Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
• Isa 27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
• 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.
• Prov 13:17A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
• 2 Chr 36:15Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;
• Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
• Job 33:23“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
• Jer 44:4However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
• Neh 9:29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
• 2 Kgs 17:13Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn 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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