11 translations · Greek
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- KJV King James Version
- Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- ASV American Standard Version
- Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- so that if anyone [is] in Christ—[he is] a new creature; the old things passed away, behold, all things have become new.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- That's why anyone who is in Christ is a new being—what was old is gone, the new has come!
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὥστε | hōste | Therefore | G5620 ὥστε so |
| εἴ | ei | if | G1487 εἰ if |
| τις | tis | anyone | G5100 τις one |
| ἐν | en | [is] in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| Χριστῷ | Christō | Christ | G5547 Χριστός Christ |
| καινὴ | kainē | [he is] a new | G2537 καινός new |
| κτίσις | ktisis | creation | G2937 κτίσις creation |
| τὰ | ta | The | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀρχαῖα | archaia | old | G744 ἀρχαῖος ancient |
| παρῆλθεν | parēlthen | has passed away | G3928 παρέρχομαι to pass by |
| ἰδοὺ | idou | Behold | G2400 ἰδού look! |
| γέγονεν | gegonen | has come | G1096 γίνομαι to be |
| καινά | kaina | [the] new | G2537 καινός new |
Related verses
- Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Ephesians 4:22–24
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
- Isaiah 43:18–19
“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
- John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
- Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
- Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- Colossians 3:1–10
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. …
- Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
- Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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In context
15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Read all of 2 Corinthians 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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