2Corinthians:5

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* For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle is taken down , we have a building from God , a house not made with hands , eternal in Heaven . * For indeed in this we groan , greatly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling place out of Heaven , * if indeed in being clothed , we shall not be found naked . * For indeed , being in the tabernacle , we groan , having been weighted down , inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed , but to be clothed , so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life . * And He having worked in us for this same thing is God , who also is giving us the earnest of the Spirit . * Then always being fully assured , and knowing that being at home in the body we are away from home from the Lord * (for we walk by faith , not by sight ), * we are fully assured , then , and are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body , and to come home to the Lord . * Because of this , we also are striving to be pleasing to Him , whether being at home , or being away from home . * For we all must appear before the judgment seat of Christ , so that each one may receive the things done through the body , according to what he did , whether good or bad . * Then knowing the fear of the Lord , we persuade men , and we have been manifest to God ; and I also hope to have been manifest in your consciences . * For we do not again commend ourselves to you , but are giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf , that you may have it toward those boasting in appearance and not in heart . * For if we are insane , it is to God ; or if we are in our senses , it is for you . * For the love of Christ constrains us , having judged this , that if One died for all , then the all died ; * and He died for all , that the living ones may live no more to themselves , but to the One having died for them and having been raised . * So as we now know no one according to flesh , but even if we have known Christ according to flesh , yet now we no longer know Him so . * So that if anyone is in Christ , that one is a new creation ; the old things have passed away ; behold , all things have become new ! * And all things are of God , who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ , and having given to us the ministry of reconciliation , * whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself , not charging their trespasses to them , and putting the word of reconciliation in us . * Then on behalf of Christ , we are ambassadors , as God is exhorting through us , we beseech on behalf of Christ , Be reconciled to God . * For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us , that we might become the righteousness of God in Him .

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