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2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is done by God. Paul gives the credit to God! For Paul, the cross demonstrates both Christ's love and God's love!!! Changed us from enemies. Note Christ's sacrifice changes us, not God! God's act in Christ to set us free changes us from enemies to friends, when we reach out through faith to seize it! And gave as the task. The church, and specifically Paul, has the task of making others the friends of God. This is done by preaching the Good News!

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 18. _AND ALL THINGS_ ARE _OF GOD_] As the thorough conversion of the soul is compared to a new _creation_, and _creation_ is the proper work of an _all-wise, almighty Being_; then this total ch...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD - This refers particularly to the things in question, the renewing of the heart, and the influences by which Paul had been brought to a state of willingness to forsake all, a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Cons...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The emphasis is on the opening words of 2 Corinthians 5:11. Among the clouds of misrepresentation to which he was exposed was the sneering assertion that in some unworthy sense he persuades or gets ro...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So then, it is because we know the fear of the Lord that we keep on trying to persuade men, but to God we are already known through and through, and I hope that in your conscience, too, we will come t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL THINGS. Greek. _ta panta_. Compare Acts 17:26; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6. HATH. Omit. RECONCILED. See Romans

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all things are of God_ Whether natural or spiritual. He is the Creator of heaven and earth, Genesis 1:1, as well as of the work of redemption and of the new heart of man. Cf. chap. 2 Corinthians 1:21...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Christian Ministry one of Reconciliation 11. _the terror of the Lord_ i.e. "His to-be-dreaded judgment." Beza. This translation is due to the Geneva Version, following Beza and Calvin (Wiclif, _d...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤᾺ ΔῈ ΠΆΝΤΑ ἘΚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΑΤΑΛΛΆΞΑΝΤΟΣ ἩΜΑ͂Σ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ι ΔΙᾺ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ ΚΑῚ ΔΌΝΤΟΣ ἩΜΙ͂Ν Τ. Δ. Τ. Κ. This great change is not our own work: but _all things are_ FROM _God, who_ RECONCILED _us to Himse...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21:_ Regeneration and reconciliation are both necessary if we are to be with God in heaven. Both regeneration and reconciliation are in Christ and by Chris...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΑΤΑΛΛΆΞΑΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΆΣΣΩ (G2644) вызывать перемену, обменивать, примирять. Предложное сочетание перфектно: "приводить в серьезным переменам" (МН, 298). Примирение означает, что сме...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND ALL THINGS, &C.— _Now,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Fallibility of the Human Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:16-21) 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Ministry of Reconciliation Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconci...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; ALL [THE, GREEK] THINGS - all our privileges in this new creation...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    16 Paul had been proclaiming the kingdom, with Christ and the nation which is related to Him by physical ties at its head. Entrance into that kingdom was by a birth from above. But now the figure of b...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:18 that (f-24) Or simply 'of reconciliation.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'Since, therefore, it is holiness alone that is of importance, we, unlike our opponents, pay no attention to men's outward appearance and circumstances; even in the case of Christ, though...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THINGS] i.e. all these changes. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION] the whole message of the gospel conveyed by preaching, teaching, the sacraments, and the example of Christians, assuring men of God...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 We know this. Our body is like an *earthly tent. If our *earthly tent falls down, we will have a permanent building....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD. — The presence of the article in the Greek indicates that he is speaking, not of the universe at large, but of the new things belonging to the new creation of which he had s...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 16 RECONCILIATION. 2 Corinthians 5:18 (R.V) "IF any man be in Christ," Paul has said, "there is a new creation; he is another man and lives in another world. But the new creation has the sam...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    IN CHRIST ALL IS NEW, AS FROM GOD WHO RECONCILED THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τὰ δὲ πάντα κ. τ. λ.: _but all things, sc._, all these new things, _are of God_. See reff. St. Paul is especially anxious in this Epistle to trace up spiritual blessings to their true source; see chap...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CONSTRAINED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 5:11 It was of small importance in Paul's eyes what his critics thought of him. He desired only to please his supreme Lord, whether he lived or died, w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Mas...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 18 This new man lives a life completely planned and revealed by God. He sent Christ to die that we might be made friends again with God....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (12) And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; (12) He commends the excellency of the ministry of the Gospel,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _But all things (all these blessings of grace and glory) are of God, who hath sent his only divine Son, by whom he hath reconciled us to himself, by his incarnation and death for our redemption. (With...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Chris...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    18._All things are of God. _He means, all things that belong to Christ’s kingdom. “If we would be Christ’s, we must be regenerated by God. Now that is no ordinary gift.” He does not, therefore, speak...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    What then is the effect of the possession of life in Christ as applied to death and judgment, the two natural objects of men's fears, the fruit of sin? If our bodies are not yet transformed; and if th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD,.... A man's being brought into a Gospel church state is of God; the causing all old things to pass away, whether in the Jewish or Gentile world, is of God; the shaking of th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And all things _are_ of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; Ver. 18. _And all things are of God_] He is both author and finish...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And all things_, &c. These new things _are_ all _of God_, the author of them, considered in this view as _reconciling us to himself_ Removing our carnal mind, which was enmity against him, and taking...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD; he is the author of this change and all its blessings. MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION; the treasure spoken of in chap 2 Corinthians 4:7, to be used for the benefit of lost men....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD, WHO HATH RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF BY JESUS CHRIST, AND HATH GIVEN TO US THE, MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The ministry of reconciliation:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-21 The renewed man acts upon new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company. The believer is created anew; his heart is not merely set right, but a new heart is given him. He is t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD; this change, which is wrought in our hearts, is not of ourselves, but wrought in us by the great and mighty power of God: so 1 THESSALONIANS 1:13: _Which were born, not of b...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 5:18 Now G1161 things G3956 of G1537 God G2316 who G3588 reconciled G2644 (G5660) us G2248

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION (2 CORINTHIANS 5:11 TO 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2). Having spoken of God's work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of the Chri...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning t...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _Comprehensive View of the Christian Ministry,_ 18-21. 2 Corinthians 5:18. AND to express in brief the whole Divine plan ALL THINGS (in this matter) ARE OF GOD, WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CH...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST (του καταλλαξαντος ημας εαυτω δια Χριστου). Here Paul uses one of his great doctrinal words, καταλλασσω, old word for exchanging coins. Διαλλασσω, to chan...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Corinthians 5:18 The Christian Priest. I. On the first two clauses of the text the third, of course, depends. "He has committed to us the ministry of reconciliation." St. Paul could have no concept...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Corinthians 5:9. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens._ Is not this grand courage on the part of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens._ The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house ma...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ._ HIGH DOCTRINE Whatsoever the Christian can desire is to be found in the “all things.” But lest even that should not be...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:18 RECONCILIATION. These verses outline (1) the _basis_ of Paul’s apostolic ministry of the new covenant (Paul’s own reconciliation to God through Christ); (2) it...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _And all things are of God._ All these new things were created and given by the gift and grace of God, _who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconcil...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five. Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, vari...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 12:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 John 2:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    And [δ ε]. Better, Rev., but; as if anticipating a possible failure to discern the primary agency of God in this moral transformation. All things - all that are involved in this mighty change - are fr...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And all these new things are from God, considered under this very notion, as reconciling us — The world, 2 Corinthians 5:19, to himself....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    That is, all those things forementioned belonging to this new spiritual creation, are of God, as the author and efficient cause of them. Learn, That God is the original author of the new creature, and...

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