2 Corinthians 5:17

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

CRITICAL NOTES2 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 (4).… For (10), etc.; a chain of “fors.” We know.—Partly from having seen the glorified Christ wearing His resurrection body; Paul and the other Apostolic “witnesses of the resurrection” (Acts 1:22) could on this ground all say “we.” [Note how Peter is led from the “putting off” of his own “tabernacle” (cognate word) to the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:17

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 the mystery of Christ's incarnation. He took our manhood and made it new in Himself, that we might be made new in Him. He hallowed our manhood, and carried it up into the presence of His Father as the firstfruits of a new creation. And we shall be made new creatures through the same power by which He... read more

Charles Simeon

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

DISCOURSE: 2021THE CHRISTIAN A NEW CREATURE2 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 discharge of our duty to God has in every age rather provoked the displeasure, than conciliated the favour, of a wicked world. The most eminent characters, instead of escaping censure by means of their distinguished piety, have on the contrary incurred the greatest portion of obloquy and reproach. It was thus that... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

The Believer A New Creature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 881) Delivered on Sunday Morning, July 18th, 1869, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." 2 Corinthians 5:17 . THIS TEXT IS exceedingly full of matter, and might require many treatises, and even multitudes of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five.Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, various perils, it didn't really trouble him, for he had a correct understanding of death. And I think that this is something that we as Christians need to have: a correct understanding of what death is for the child of God.And it is because we often do not have a correct understanding, we hear such... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 5:1-21

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 made by Jehovah’s fiat, is very striking. But the assurance of it is more to be remarked. “We know” that if our bodies were dissolved, we have a mansion in the heavens. On the superior excellence of the ministry, and on the eternal weight of glory, our confidence is built, that whenever we shall... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 5:12-17

2 Corinthians 5:12-17For we commend not ourselves again unto you.Paul’s self-commendation1. St. Paul has been magnifying his ministry. It had been, he says, a ministry of the Spirit, not of the letter (2 Corinthians 3:6). Its authority had been that of the truth (2 Corinthians 4:2). It had been a suffering and a martyr ministry (2 Corinthians 4:8-10); representative, too, of Christ in word and deed (2 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 10:1-18); unworldly (2 Corinthians 5:2; 2 Corinthians 5:8-9);... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature.In Christ and what it involvesI. The new relation indicated. The believer is “in Christ.”1. As the ground of his acceptance (Philippians 3:9). Christ by His atoning sacrifice has supplied the grounds whereby sinful men may become objects of complacent regard to God. We are lost in ourselves, but are to find ourselves in Him, surrounded by His merits as with a wall of defence, sheltered by them as by an all-embracing... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:17

17 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 into him therefore with all speed; for till this be done, though thou shouldest spend thy time in gathering up pearls and jewels, thou art an undone creature. All things are become new ] The substance of the soul is the same, the qualities and operations altered. In regeneration our natures are... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Corinthians 5:17

be: 2 Corinthians 5:19, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 2 Corinthians 12:2, Isaiah 45:17, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 45:25, John 14:20, John 15:2, John 15:5, John 17:23, Romans 8:1, Romans 8:9, Romans 16:7, Romans 16:11, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Galatians 3:28, Galatians 5:6, Ephesians 1:3, Ephesians 1:4, Philippians 4:21 he is: or, let him be a new: Psalms 51:10, Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 18:31, Ezekiel 36:26, Matthew 12:33, John 3:3, John 3:5, Galatians 6:15, Ephesians 2:10 old: 2 Corinthians 5:16, Isaiah 43:18,... read more

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