2Cor 5
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For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building
from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is
from heaven:
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if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we
would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be
swallowed up of life.
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Now he who wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave to us the earn of the Spirit.
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Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in
the body, we are absent from the Lord
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(for we walk by faith, not by sight);
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we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body,
and to be at home with the Lord.
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Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing
to him.
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For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one
may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he has done, whether
[it be] good or bad.
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Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest
to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
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We are not again commending ourselves to you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of
glorying on our behalf, that you may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance,
and not in heart.
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For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we are of sober mind,
it is to you.
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For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that one died for all,
therefore all died;
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and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live to themselves, but
to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
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Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ
after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.
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Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed
away; behold, they are become new.
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But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to
us the ministry of reconciliation;
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to wit, 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.
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We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by
us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be you reconciled to God.
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Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness
of God in him.