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2 Corinthians 5:14
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Corinthian church while defending his ministry and explaining the theological basis for Christian conduct.
The words — The Greek verb συνέχει (sunechei) literally means "drives together" or "compels," and κρίναντας (krinantas) translates to "having concluded" or "judging."
The thread — The pattern of dying to self and living for Christ runs through Galatians 2:20, Romans 14:7, and Matthew 10:37.
Why it lands — The text states that Christ’s love forces believers to acknowledge their corporate death in Him and redirects their daily conduct away from self-interest toward His authority.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Cross-references
- Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Romans 14:7 For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
- Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- 1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
- Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- Ephesians 3:18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
- John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Luke 7:42 When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”