2 Corinthians 5:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, o...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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. beh...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 disch...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature - It is vain for a man to pro...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, &c.— Galatians 6:14-15 may give some light to this place. To connect this and the preceding verse with St. Paul's discourse here, they must be understood i...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 i...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 6:3-4 ), to claim personally what had been secured...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 15 THE NEW WORLD. 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (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 H...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Constrained by the Love of Christ 2 Corinthians 5:11-19 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 o...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 Ma...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 Chri...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 hea...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 o...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ministry of the Apostles. A. D. 57. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 arg...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 2 Corinthians 5:1 .—Flow of thought quite continuous from 2 Corinthians 4:18 . For ( 2 Corinthians 4:15 ).… For (17).… For ( 2 Corinthians 5:1 ).… For (2).… For...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 par...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 Corinth...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel ( 2 Corinthians 5:1-47 ). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation ( 2 Cor...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The ministry of reconciliation:
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 Corinthians 13:11 ; 2 Corinthians 12:2 ; 2 Corinthians 5:16 ; 2 Corinthians 5:19 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21 ; 2 Peter 3:10-13 ; Colossians 3:1-10 ; Ephesians 1:3 ; Ephesian...
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 aw...

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes