2nd Corinthians Chapter 5 verse 14 Holy Bible
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
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For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;
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For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
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For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
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for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
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2nd Corinthians 5 : 14 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - The love of Christ. It matters little whether this be interpreted as a subjective genitive, "Christ's love to man," or as an objective genitive, our love to Christ;" for the two suppose and interfuse each other. St. Paul's usage, however, favours the former interpretation (2 Corinthians 13:14; 1 Corinthians 16:24). Constraineth. The word means that it compresses us, and therefore keeps us irresistibly to one object (Luke 12:50). That if one died for all, then were all dead. This is an unfortunate mistranslation and wrong reading for that one died for all, therefore all died. What compels Paul to sacrifice himself to the work of God for his converts is the conviction, which he formed once for all at his conversion, that One, even Christ, died on behalf of all men (Romans 5:15-19) a redeeming death (ver. 21); and that, consequently, in that death, all potentially died with him - died to their life of sin, and rose to the life of righteousness. The best comments on this bold and concentrated phrase are - "I died to the Law that I might live to Christ;" "I have been crucified with Christ" (Galatians 2:19, 20); and, "Ye died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). When Christ died, all humanity, of which he was the federal Head, died potentially with him to sin and selfishness, as he further shows in the next verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) For the love of Christ constraineth us.--The Greek, like the English, admits of two interpretations--Christ's love for us, or our love for Christ. St. Paul's uniform use of this and like phrases, however, elsewhere (Romans 5:5; Romans 8:35; 1Corinthians 16:24; 2Corinthians 13:14), is decisive in favour of the former. It was the Apostle's sense of the love that Christ had shown to him and to all men that was acting as a constraining power, directing every act of every spiritual state to the good of others, restraining him from every self-seeking purpose.Because we thus judge, that if one died for all.--Better, as expressing the force of the Greek tense, Because we formed this judgment. The form of expression implies that the conviction dated from a given time, i.e., probably, from the hour when, in the new birth of his conversion, he first learnt to know the universality of the love of Christ manifested in His death. Many MSS. omit the "if," but without any real change of meaning. It is obvious that St. Paul assumes the fact, even if it be stated hypothetically. The thought is the same as in the nearly contemporary passage of Romans 5:15-19, and takes its place among St. Paul's most unqualified assertions of the universality of the atonement effected by Christ's death. The Greek preposition does not in itself imply more than the fact that the death was on behalf of all; but this runs up--as we see by comparing Matthew 20:28, Mark 10:45, with Mark 14:24, John 15:13--into the thought that the death was, in some very real sense, vicarious: in the place of the death of all men. The sequence of thought involves that meaning here. . . .
