2Corinthians:5

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* For we know that if our earthly house , this tent , is destroyed , we have a building from God , a house not made with hands , eternal in the heavens . * For in this we groan , earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven , * if indeed , having been clothed , we shall not be found naked . * For we who are in this tent groan , being burdened , not because we want to be unclothed , but further clothed , that mortality may be swallowed up by life . * Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God , who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee . * So we are always confident , knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord . * For we walk by faith , not by sight . * We are confident , yes , well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord . * Therefore we make it our aim , whether present or absent , to be well pleasing to Him . * For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ , that each one may receive the things done in the body , according to what he has done , whether good or bad . * Knowing , therefore , the terror of the Lord , we persuade men ; but we are well known to God , and I also trust are well known in your consciences . * For we do not commend ourselves again to you , but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf , that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart . * For if we are beside ourselves , it is for God ; or if we are of sound mind , it is for you . * For the love of Christ compels us , because we judge thus : that if One died for all , then all died ; * and He died for all , that those who live should live no longer for themselves , but for Him who died for them and rose again . * Therefore , from now on , we regard no one according to the flesh . Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh , yet now we know Him thus no longer . * Therefore , if anyone is in Christ , he is a new creation ; old things have passed away ; behold , all things have become new . * Now all things are of God , who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ , and has given us the ministry of reconciliation , * that is , that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself , not imputing their trespasses to them , and has committed to us the word of reconciliation . * Now then , we are ambassadors for Christ , as though God were pleading through us : we implore you on Christ 's behalf , 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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