2 Corinthians 5:18
New International Version
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

New Living Translation
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.

English Standard Version
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

Berean Standard Bible
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

Berean Literal Bible
Now all things are of God, the One having reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and having given to us the ministry of reconciliation:

King James 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;

New King James Version
Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

New American Standard Bible
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

NASB 1995
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

NASB 1977
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

Amplified Bible
But all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ [making us acceptable to Him] and gave us the ministry of reconciliation [so that by our example we might bring others to Him],

Christian Standard Bible
Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And everything has become new from God - he who reconciled us to himself in The Messiah, and he has given us the Ministry of the reconciliation.

Contemporary English Version
God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ; and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships.

Good News Translation
All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.

International Standard Version
All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

Literal Standard Version
And all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of the reconciliation,

Majority Standard Bible
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

New American Bible
And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation,

NET Bible
And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

New Revised Standard Version
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;

New Heart English Bible
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Webster's Bible Translation
And all things are from God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Weymouth New Testament
And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the ministry of reconciliation.

World English Bible
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Young's Literal Translation
And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ambassadors for Christ
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.…

Cross References
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

Romans 5:11
Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

1 Corinthians 11:12
For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

Ephesians 2:16
and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

Colossians 1:20
and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

Colossians 1:22
But now He has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence--


Treasury of Scripture

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

all.

John 3:16,27
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…

Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

who.

Leviticus 6:30
And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

Ezekiel 45:15
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

hath given.

2 Corinthians 5:19,20
To 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…

Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

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2 Corinthians 5
1. That in his assured hope of immortal glory,
9. and in expectation of it, he labors to keep a good conscience;
12. not that he may boast of himself,
14. but as one that, having received life from Christ,
17. endeavors to live as a new creature to Christ only,
18. and by his ministry of reconciliation, to reconcile others also in Christ to God.














(18) 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 spoken in the previous verse. The line of thought on which he has now entered raises him for the time above all that is personal and temporary, and leads him to one of his fullest and noblest utterances as to God's redeeming work.

Who hath reconciled us to himself. . . . and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.--It is worthy of note that this is the first occurrence, in order of time, in St. Paul's Epistles, of this word "reconcile" as describing God's work in Christ, and that so applied it occurs only in this Epistle and in Romans 5:10, written shortly afterwards. The idea involved is that man had been at enmity and was now atoned (at-oned) and brought into concord with God. It will be noted that the work is described as originating with the Father and accomplished by the mediation of the Son. It is obvious that the personal pronoun is used with a different extent in the two clauses: the first embracing, as the context shows, the whole race of mankind; the last limited to those who, like the Apostles, were preachers of the Word. More accurately, the verbs should run: who reconciled. . . . and gave. The word translated "reconciliation" is, it should be noted, the same as that rendered "atonement" in Romans 5:11.

Verse 18. - And all things are of God; literally, but all things (in this "new creation") are from God. Who hath reconciled us; rather, who (by Christ's one offering of himself) reconciled us to himself. We were his enemies (Romans 5:10; Romans 11:28), but, because he was still our Friend and Father, he brought us back to himself by Christ. The ministry of reconciliation. The ministry which teaches the reconciliation which he has effected for us.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
All this [is]
πάντα (panta)
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

God,
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

who
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

reconciled
καταλλάξαντος (katallaxantos)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2644: To change, exchange, reconcile. From kata and allasso; to change mutually, i.e. to compound a difference.

us
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

to Himself
ἑαυτῷ (heautō)
Reflexive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1438: Himself, herself, itself.

through
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

Christ
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

gave
δόντος (dontos)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

us
ἡμῖν (hēmin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

ministry
διακονίαν (diakonian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1248: Waiting at table; in a wider sense: service, ministration. From diakonos; attendance; figuratively aid, service.

of reconciliation:
καταλλαγῆς (katallagēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2643: Reconciliation, restoration to favor. From katallasso; exchange, i.e. Restoration to favor.


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