Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 2 Corinthians 5:11, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Jude 1:23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- 2 Timothy 2:24
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
- Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
- Luke 12:5
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
- 2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
- Acts 18:13
Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown dow…
- 2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, …
- Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
More to meet God in 2 Corinthians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.