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2 Corinthians Chapter 5

¹For 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.

²For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, ³if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.

⁴For 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.

⁵Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

⁶So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord; ⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight.

⁸We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

⁹So we also make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

¹⁰For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of the AnointedOne that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

¹¹So, knowing the fear of ForeverOne, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

¹²For 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.

¹³For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

¹⁴For the love of the AnointedOne constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

¹⁵He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

¹⁶So from now on we know no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known the AnointedOne according to the flesh, now we no longer know him in that way.

¹⁷So if anyone is in the AnointedOne, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

¹⁸But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus AnointedOne, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹namely, that God was in the AnointedOne reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

²⁰So we are ambassadors on behalf of the AnointedOne, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of the AnointedOne, be reconciled to God.

²¹For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.