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2 Corinthians 5:17

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Therefore if anyone is in Christ, [he is] a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Therefore, if any man [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— On the contrary, now, no longer, are we gaining it. So that, if any one is in Christ, there is a new creation! the old things, have passed away,—Lo! they have become new!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— so that if any one [is] in Christ—[he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Therefore if any man be in Christ, let him be a newe creature. Olde things are passed away: beholde, all things are become newe.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Therfore if any man [be] in Christ, [hee is] a new creature: old things are past away, behold, al things are become new.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Whoever from now on is a follower of Christ is a new creation; old things have passed away;
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— Whoever therefore is in the Meshiha is a new creature; the old things have passed,
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— Whoever therefore is in the Messiah, is a new creature: old things have passed away;

Strong's Numbers & Red-LettersGreek New TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Therefore 5620
{5620} Prime
ὥστε
hoste
{hoce'-teh}
From G5613 and G5037; so too, that is, thus therefore (in various relations of consecution, as shown).
if any man 1536
{1536} Prime
εἴ τις
ei tis
{i tis}
From G1487 and G5100; if any.
[be] in 1722
{1722} Prime
ἐν
en
{en}
A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), that is, a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537); 'in', at, (up-) on, by, etc.
Christ, 5547
{5547} Prime
Χριστός
Christos
{khris-tos'}
From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.
[he is] a new 2537
{2537} Prime
καινός
kainos
{kahee-nos'}
Of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while G3501 is properly so with respect to age).
creature: 2937
{2937} Prime
κτίσις
ktisis
{ktis'-is}
From G2936; original formation (properly the act; by implication the thing, literally or figuratively).
old things 744
{0744} Prime
ἀρχαῖος
archaios
{ar-khah'-yos}
From G0746; original or primeval.
are passed away; 3928
{3928} Prime
παρέρχομαι
parerchomai
{par-er'-khom-ahee}
From G3844 and G2064; to come near or aside, that is, to approach (arrive), go by (or away), (figuratively) perish or neglect, (causatively) avert.
z5627
<5627> Grammar
Tense - Second Aorist (See G5780)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 2138 plus 1 in a variant reading in a footnote
behold, 2400
{2400} Prime
ἰδού
idou
{id-oo'}
Second person singular imperative middle voice of G1492; used as imperative lo!.
z5628
<5628> Grammar
Tense - Second Aorist (See G5780)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Imperative (See G5794)
Count - 459
all things 3956
{3956} Prime
πᾶς
pas
{pas}
Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.
are become 1096
{1096} Prime
γίνομαι
ginomai
{ghin'-om-ahee}
A prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be ('gen' -erate), that is, (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.).
z5754
<5754> Grammar
Tense - Second Perfect (See G5782)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 97
new. 2537
{2537} Prime
καινός
kainos
{kahee-nos'}
Of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while G3501 is properly so with respect to age).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

2 Corinthians 5:17

_ _ Therefore — connected with the words in 2 Corinthians 5:16, “We know Christ no more after the flesh.” As Christ has entered on His new heavenly life by His resurrection and ascension, so all who are “in Christ” (that is, united to Him by faith as the branch is In the vine) are new creatures (Romans 6:9-11). “New” in the Greek implies a new nature quite different from anything previously existing, not merely recent, which is expressed by a different Greek word (Galatians 6:15).

_ _ creature — literally, “creation,” and so the creature resulting from the creation (compare John 3:3, John 3:5; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 4:23; Colossians 3:10, Colossians 3:11). As we are “in Christ,” so “God was in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:19): hence He is Mediator between God and us.

_ _ old things — selfish, carnal views (compare 2 Corinthians 5:16) of ourselves, of other men, and of Christ.

_ _ passed away — spontaneously, like the snow of early spring [Bengel] before the advancing sun.

_ _ behold — implying an allusion to Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 65:17.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Corinthians 5:17

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 away — Of their own accord, even as snow in spring. Behold — The present, visible, undeniable change! All things are become new — He has new life, new senses, new faculties, new affections, new appetites, new ideas and conceptions. His whole tenor of action and conversation is new, and he lives, as it were, in a new world. God, men, the whole creation, heaven, earth, and all therein, appear in a new light, and stand related to him in a new manner, since he was created anew in Christ Jesus.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

2 Corinthians 5:17

(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 of Christ to meditate on heavenly things, and not earthly.

(o) As a thing made new by God, for though a man is not newly created when God gives him the spirit of regeneration, but only his qualities are changed, yet nonetheless it pleased the Holy Spirit to speak so, to teach us that we must attribute all things to the glory of God. Not that we are as rocks or stones, but because God creates in us both the will to will well, and the power to do well.

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be:

2 Corinthians 5:19 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.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Isaiah 45:17 [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Isaiah 45:24-25 Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. ... In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Romans 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Romans 16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the [household] of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
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:
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Ephesians 1:3-4 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: ... According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Philippians 4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

he is:
or, let him be

a new:

Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

old:

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore 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.
Isaiah 43:18-19 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. ... Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 65:17-18 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. ... But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Matthew 9:16-17 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. ... Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Romans 6:4-6 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ... Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 8:10 And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
Ephesians 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ... And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Philippians 3:7-9 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. ... And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Colossians 3:1-10 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. ... And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Hebrews 8:9-13 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. ... In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.
2 Peter 3:10-13 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. ... Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:1-5 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. ... And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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Ps 51:10. Is 43:18; 45:17, 24; 65:17. Ezk 11:19; 18:31; 36:26. Mt 9:16; 12:33; 24:35. Jn 3:3, 5; 14:20; 15:2, 5; 17:23. Ro 6:4; 7:6; 8:1, 9, 10; 16:7, 11. 1Co 1:30; 13:11. 2Co 5:16, 19, 21; 12:2. Ga 3:28; 5:6; 6:15. Ep 1:3; 2:10, 15; 4:22. Php 3:7; 4:21. Col 3:1. He 8:9. 2P 3:10. Rv 21:1.

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