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title: 2 Corinthians 5
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T03:52:15.853Z
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**1 **For we know that if our earthly house of *this* tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. **2 **For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: **3 **If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. **4 **For we that are in *this* tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. **5 **Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing *is* God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

**6 **Therefore *we are* always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: **7 **(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) **8 **We are confident, *I say*, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. **9 **Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. **10 **For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things *done* in *his* body, according to that he hath done, whether *it be* good or bad.

**11 **Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. **12 **For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to *answer* them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. **13 **For whether we be beside ourselves, *it is* to God: or whether we be sober, *it is* for your cause. **14 **For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: **15 **And *that* he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

**16 **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. **17 **Therefore if any man *be* in Christ, *he is* a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. **18 **And all things *are* of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; **19 **To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

**20 **Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech *you* by us: we pray *you* in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. **21 **For he hath made him *to be* sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.