Verse 17 Christians are spiritual and should be judged by spiritual standards. They should not be rejected because they are Gentiles or accepted because they are Jews. Fleshly desires are laid aside at baptism and a new life begun.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 kaina, {A} Since the following sentence begins with ta. de. pa,nta, one could argue that the original reading was kaina. ta. pa,nta (Dc K P Y 629 _Byz_pt _Lect_ syrh goth...
Verse 17. _IF ANY MAN_ BE _IN CHRIST_, HE IS _A NEW CREATURE_] It is vain for a man to profess affinity to Christ according to the _flesh_, while he is unchanged in his heart and life, and dead in tr...
THEREFORE IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST - The phrase to “be in Christ,” evidently means to be united to Christ by faith; or to be in him as the branch is in the vine - that is, so united to the vine, or so...
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...
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...
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...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
IF. App-118. ANY MAN. Greek. _tis._ App-123. HE IS. Supply the ellipsis by there is. A NEW CREATURE. a new creation. NEW. Greek. _kainos_. See Matthew 9:17. OLD. the ancient. BEHOLD. App-133. A...
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...
_Therefore_ i.e. as a conclusion from 2 Corinthians 5:15, in consequence of Christ's Death, His Life, His superhuman, Divine personality. _if any man be in Christ_ The Vulgate puts no stop at Christ,...
ΚΑΙΝΆ (אBCDFG, Lat. Vet. Copt.) rather than καινὰ τὰ πάντα (D2D3KLP, Vulg.). Some cursives have τὰ πάντα καινά. 17. ὭΣΤΕ ΕἼ ΤΙΣ ἘΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι, ΚΑΙΝῊ ΚΤΊΣΙΣ· ΤᾺ�. The punctuation of the Vulgate may be sa...
_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...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) посему. Павел делает второй вывод, ΚΤΊΣΙΣ (G2937) творение. Тот, кто во Христе и испытай рождение заново, является частью нового творения. Рабби использовали термин "новая тварь" для опр...
DISCOURSE: 2021 THE CHRISTIAN A NEW CREATURE 2 Corinthians 5:17. _If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new_. A FAITHFUL discharge o...
THEREFORE, IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, &C.— Galatians 6:14 may give some light to this place. To connect this and the preceding verse with St. Paul's discourse here, they must be understood in reference...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ Motivating Forces Scripture 2 Corinthians 5:11-17 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manife...
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...
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. THEREFORE. Connected with 2 Corinthians 5:16, 'We know Christ no more after t...
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...
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...
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...
A NEW CREATURE] or, as we would say, a new man. He looks on things from a different standpoint, tries them by a different standard, because he is united to Christ in such a way that he lives always un...
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....
THEREFORE IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST. — To be in Christ, in St. Paul’s language, is for a man to be united with him by faith and by baptism (Romans 6:3), to claim personally what had been secured to him...
CHAPTER 15 THE NEW WORLD. 2 Corinthians 5:16 (R.V) THE inferences which are here drawn depend upon what has just been said of Christ's death for all, and the death of all in that death of His. In th...
ὥστε εἴ τις κ. τ. λ.: _so that_ (a consequence of the higher view of Christ explained in the last verse) _if any man_ (note the universality of the doctrine which he expounds) _be in Christ, there is...
IN CHRIST ALL IS NEW, AS FROM GOD WHO RECONCILED THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST....
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...
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...
(11) Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a (o) new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (11) An exhortation for every man who is renewed with the Spirit o...
If then any be in Christ, &c. The sense seems to be, if by believing in Christ we are become as it were new creatures, rescued by his grace and his Spirit, the old things are passed away, we must reno...
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...
_A NEW CREATION_ ‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 Had you asked St. Paul to define a Chri...
17._Therefore if any man is in Christ. _As there is something wanting in this expression, it must be supplied in this way — “_If any one _is desirous to hold some place _in Christ, _that is, in the ki...
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...
THEREFORE IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST,.... There's a secret being in Christ from everlasting; so all that are loved by him, espoused unto him, chosen and preserved in him, to whom he was a covenant head,...
Therefore if any man _be_ in Christ, _he is_ a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Ver. 17. _Is a new creature_] Either a new man or no man in Christ. Get int...
_Therefore_ Since all Christ's true disciples do thus live to him, and not to themselves, and only know him in a spiritual manner; _if any man be in Christ_ By living faith and the indwelling of his S...
IN CHRIST; united to him by faith. A NEW CREATURE; created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 4:24; COLOSSIANS 3:10. OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; former views and fe
THEREFORE, IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE; OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW....
The ministry of reconciliation:...
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...
HE IS: Or, let him be...
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...
OLBGrk; IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, is as much as, if any man be implanted or ingrafted into Christ, by faith united to him, HE IS A NEW CREATURE; (the Greek is, a new creation); a phrase which argueth t...
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. [By his spiritual participation in the death and resurrection of Christ, Paul had...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians and things in which the Jews make their boast. "Old things are passed away: behold, all things have become new."[47] Epistle of Barnabas the last like the firs...
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore G5620 anyone G1536 in G1722 Christ G5547 new G2537 creation G2937 things G744 away...
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...
‘Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new (or ‘the old has passed away, the new has come').' As a result of that if any man...
2 Corinthians 5:17. WHEREFORE IF ANY MAN IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: THE OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, THEY [1] ARE BECOME NEW. This verse simply generalizes the preceding statements, st...
A NEW CREATURE (καινη κτισις). A fresh start is made (καινη). Κτισις is the old word for the act of creating (Romans 1:20), but in N.T. by metonymy it usually bears the notion of κτισμα, the thing...
2 Corinthians 5:17 Such is the change which passes upon Christians through the power of Christ their Lord; they are made new creatures. And this deep mystery of our own renewed being flows out of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHEN. At the time anyone is joined to Christ. See Galatians 3:27. HE IS, Not: he will be; but he is! The _new being_ is opposed to the human point of view. It supersedes racial distinctions (Galatians...
_For we commend not ourselves again unto you._ PAUL’S SELF-COMMENDATION 1. St. Paul has been magnifying his ministry. It had been, he says, a ministry of the Spirit, not of the letter (2 Corinthians...
_Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature._ IN CHRIST AND WHAT IT INVOLVES I. The new relation indicated. The believer is “in Christ.” 1. As the ground of his acceptance (Philippians 3...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 The redemption of a people who live for Christ by living for others is the beginning of the NEW CREATION (see Isaiah 43:18
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...
_Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature._ If any one is with me regenerate in Christ, and recreated and changed, as it were, into a new creature, even as I am not what I was, Saul bei...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...
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:...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 13:11; 2 Corinthians 12:2; 2 Corinthians 5:16;...
A new creature [κ α ι ν η κ τ ι σ ι ς]. Or creation. Compare Galatians 6:15. The word ktisiv is used in three senses in the New Testament. The act of creating, as Romans 1:20. The sum of created thing...
Therefore if any one be in Christ — A true believer in him. There is a new creation — Only the power that makes a world can make a Christian. And when he is so created, the old things are passed away...
As if the apostle had said, "If any one amongst you pretend to be. Christian indeed, ingrafted into Christ, by baptism and regeneration, and is. member of his body; he is by regeneration made. new man...