Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 5
{5:1} For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is
dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal, in the heavens. {5:2} For most certainly in this we groan,
longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven; {5:3}
if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. {5:4} For
indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we
desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is
mortal may be swallowed up by life. {5:5} Now he who made us for this
very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
{5:6} Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are
at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; {5:7} for we walk by
faith, not by sight. {5:8} We are courageous, I say, and are willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
{5:9} Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to
be well pleasing to him. {5:10} For we must all be revealed before the
judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the
body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. {5:11}
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are
revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your
consciences. {5:12} For we are not commending ourselves to you again,
but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you
may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in
heart. {5:13} For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we
are of sober mind, it is for you. {5:14} For the love of Christ
constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore
all died. {5:15} 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. {5:16} 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. {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. {5:18} But all things are of God, who reconciled us to
himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of
reconciliation; {5:19} 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. {5:20} We are therefore
ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us:
we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. {5:21} For him
who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.
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