2 Corinthians 5:14
Good News Translation
We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

New Revised Standard Version
For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

Contemporary English Version
We are ruled by Christ's love for us. We are certain that if one person died for everyone else, then all of us have died.

New American Bible
For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

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For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

the love.

2 Corinthians 8:8,9 I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity. . . .

Songs 1:4 I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Songs 8:6,7 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. . . .

Matthew 10:37,38 He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. . . .

Luke 7:42-47 And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most? . . .

John 14:21-23 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him. . . .

John 21:15-17 When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.

Ephesians 3:18,19 You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, . . .

Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

constraineth.

Job 32:18 For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.

Luke 24:29 But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.

Acts 4:19,20 But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye. . . .

because.

Romans 2:2 For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

one.

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

John 11:50-52 Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not. . . .

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

1 John 2:1,2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. . . .

then.

2 Corinthians 3:7,9 Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void: . . .

Luke 15:24,32 Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. . . .

John 5:25 Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Romans 14:7-9 For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. . . .

Ephesians 2:1-5 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, . . .

Colossians 2:13 And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:

1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

Context
Ambassadors for Christ
13For whether we be transported in mind, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for you. 14For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. 15And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.…
Cross References
Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

Romans 5:15
But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

Romans 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

Galatians 2:20
And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 3:3
For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.

2 Corinthians 5:13
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