2 Corinthians 5:9

Whether living or dead, Paul's aim is to please the Lord. Pleasing God is the controlling ambition of life.

Cross-references · 21

• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 2 Pet 3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
• Rom 14:18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
• 1 Th 4:11and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
• Gen 4:7If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
• 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
• 2 Pet 1:10–11Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Isa 56:7I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
• 1 Cor 9:26–27I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
• 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• Rom 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Rom 15:20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
• 2 Cor 5:6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
• Heb 12:28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

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