Where is it in the Bible?
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
In other translations
- ESV
- 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
- NLT
- 17This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
- CSB
- 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
- KJV
- 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The surrounding passage
2 Corinthians 5:15–19, King James Version
15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Context
Paul is writing to the church in Corinth, defending his ministry. He explains that Christ's love compels him and that he no longer regards anyone from a merely human point of view (5:14–16). The verses that follow describe God reconciling the world to himself through Christ and entrusting the ministry of reconciliation to Paul and his co-workers, a calling many readers extend to all believers (5:18–20).
About the book of 2 Corinthians
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