And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Parallel translations
- WEB Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
- KJV And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
- BSB Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
- NKJV And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
- NLT So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.
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We also rejoice in God himself, through whom we have received reconciliation. The greatest blessing is joyful fellowship with God.
Overview
Paul caps the section by saying believers rejoice not merely in benefits but 'in God' through our Lord Jesus Christ. The reconciliation now received restores the relationship sin had broken. This joy in God, made possible by Christ, is the crowning fruit of justification.
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- 2 Cor 5:18–19But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
- Rom 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
- Hab 3:17–18For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
- 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
- Gal 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
- Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
- Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- 1 Sam 2:1Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
- Ps 32:11Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
- Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
- John 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
- Phil 3:1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.
- Ps 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
- Rom 3:29–30Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- John 6:50–58This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
- Rom 11:15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
- Luke 1:46Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Rom 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- 1 Cor 10:16The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
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