2 Corinthians 5:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Know we no

Yet

John 6:63

General references

Numbers 10:30

Ezekiel 44:25

Matthew 4:22

Bible References

Know we no

Who said of his father and his mother,

‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For they observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.

Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”

Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

And Jesus *said to her, “Woman,

what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised,

barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

Yet

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

General references

But he said to him, “I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.”

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.