2 Corinthians 1:20 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²⁰ For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the 'Yes' that fulfils them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the 'Amen' rise, through us, to the glory of God.

¹³ And take us not into temptation, but deliver us from Evil.'

⁶⁸ "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Who has visited his people and wrought their deliverance, ⁶⁹ And has raised up for us the Strength of our Salvation In the House of his servant David-- ⁷⁰ As he promised by the lips of his Holy Prophets of old-- ⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us, ⁷² Showing mercy to our forefathers, And mindful of his sacred Covenant. ⁷³ This was the oath which he swore to our forefather Abraham-- ⁷⁴ That we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,

¹⁴ "Glory to God on high, And on earth peace among men in whom he finds pleasure."

¹⁷ For the Law was given through Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵ "In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "unless a man owes his birth to Water and Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

⁶ Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

²⁵ You yourselves are the heirs of the Prophets, and heirs, too, of the Covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham--'In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.' ²⁶ For you, first, God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

³² We also have good news to tell you, about the promise made to our ancestors-- ³³ That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm--'Thou art my Son; this day I have become thy Father.' ³⁴ As to his raising Jesus from the dead, never again to return to corruption, this is what is said--'I will give to you the sacred promises made to David;' ³⁵ And, therefore, in another Psalm it is said--'Thou wilt not give up the Holy One to undergo corruption.' ³⁶ David, after obediently doing God's will in his own time, 'fell asleep and was laid by the side of his ancestors, and did undergo corruption; ³⁷ But Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, did not undergo corruption. ³⁸ I would, therefore, have you know, brothers, that through Jesus forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you, ³⁹ And that, in union with him, every one who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the Law of Moses you could not be absolved.

²³ The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

³⁶ For all things are from him, through him, and for him. And to him be all glory for ever and ever! Amen.

⁷ Therefore always receive one another as friends, just as the Christ himself received us, to the glory of God. ⁸ For I tell you that Christ, in vindication of God's truthfulness, has become a minister of the Covenant of Circumcision, so that he may fulfil the promises made to our ancestors, ⁹ And that the Gentiles also may praise God for his mercy. As Scripture says--'Therefore will I make acknowledgment to thee among the Gentiles and sing in honor of thy Name.'

¹⁶ If you bless God with your spirit only, how can the man in the congregation who is without your gift say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? He does not know what you are saying!

⁶ Indeed, the same God who said 'Out of darkness light shall shine,' has shone in upon our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ.

¹⁵ For all this is for your sakes, that the loving-kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory.

¹⁶ Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, 'and to his offspring.' It was not said 'to his offsprings,' as if many persons were meant, but the words were 'to thy offspring,' showing that one person was meant--and that was Christ. ¹⁷ My point is this--An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside. ¹⁸ If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.

²² But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

⁶ And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

¹² That we should enhance his glory--we who have been the first to rest our hopes on the Christ. ¹³ And you, too, by your union with him, after you had heard the Message of the Truth, the Good News of your Salvation--you believed in him and were sealed as his by receiving the holy Spirit, which he had promised. ¹⁴ And the Spirit is a pledge of our future heritage, fore- shadowing the full redemption of God's own People--to enhance his Glory.

⁷ In order that, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving- kindness.

⁸ Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ's People, was this charge entrusted!--to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ, ⁹ And to make clear what is God's way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things; ¹⁰ So that now to the Archangels and to all the Powers on high should be made known, through the Church, the all-embracing wisdom of God,

²⁷ To whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden Truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles--'Christ among you! Your Hope of glory!'

¹⁰ When he comes to be honour ed in his People,' and to be revered in all who have learned to believe in him (for you also believed our testimony)--as he will be on 'That Day.'

¹² Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God's promises. ¹³ When God gave his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater by whom he could swear, he swore by himself. ¹⁴ His words were-- 'I will assuredly bless thee and increase thy numbers.' ¹⁵ And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfillment of God's promise. ¹⁶ Men, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute. ¹⁷ And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath. ¹⁸ For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false--we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us. ¹⁹ This hope is a very anchor for our souls, secure and strong, and it 'reaches into the Sanctuary that lies behind the Curtain,'

⁶ But Melchizedek, although not of this lineage, received tithes from Abraham, and gave his blessing to the very man who had God's promises.

¹⁰ the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order. ¹¹ But, when Christ came, he appeared as High Priest of that Better System which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect 'Tabernacle,' not made by human hands--that is to say, not a part of this present creation. ¹² Nor was it with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, that he entered, once and for all, into the Sanctuary, and obtained our eternal deliverance. ¹³ For, if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, purify those who have been defiled (as far as ceremonial purification goes), ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the Living God! ¹⁵ And that is why he is the intermediary of a new Covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first Covenant, those who have received the Call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them.

¹³ All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.

³⁹ Yet, though they all won renown by their faith, they did not obtain the final fulfillment of God's promise; ⁴⁰ since God had in view some better thing for us, that they, apart from us, should not attain perfection.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day--yes, and for ever!

¹² And it was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were acting as Ministers of the truths which have now been told to you, by those who, with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven, have brought you the Good News--truths into which even angels long to look.

²⁴ As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father. ²⁵ And this is what he himself promised us--The Immortal Life!

¹¹ And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son.

¹⁴ To the Angel of the Church in Laodicaea write:-- "These are the words of the Unchanging One, 'the Witness faithful and true, the Beginning of the Creation of God':--

¹² saying-- 'Amen. Blessing and praise, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be ascribed to our God for ever and ever. Amen.'