Sha'ul�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 assuredly 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} Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing 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 of good courage, 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 Messiah; 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 Messiah 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 Messiah
after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. {5:17} Therefore if
anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation. The old things have passed
away. Behold, they have become new. {5:18} But all things are of God,
who reconciled us to himself through Yeshua the Messiah, and gave to
us the ministry of reconciliation; {5:19} namely, that God was in
Messiah 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 Messiah, as though
God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, 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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