2Corinthians:5

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* FOR we know that if this tent , our earthly home , is thrown down , we have a building of God , a home not made by hands , eternal in the heavens . * For in this we sigh in earnest desire to put on our dwelling that comes from heaven , * since if we put that on we shall not be found naked . * For while we are in this tent we sigh being burdened , not that we wish to be unclothed , but to put on the other , that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life . * He who has prepared us for this very thing is God , and he has given to us the pledge of the Spirit . * So being always of good courage and knowing that while living at home in the body we are living in a foreign land away from the Lord \'97 * for we walk by faith , not by sight \'97 * I say we are of good courage and wish rather to live in the land foreign to the body and be at home with the Lord . * Therefore also we are ambitious to be pleasing to him , whether at home with him or in this foreign land . * For we must all appear as we truly are before the judgment seat of Christ , that each may receive the award for what he has done with his body , according to his actions , whether good or bad . * Knowing , therefore , the fear of the Lord , we are persuading men . What we are is plain to God , and I hope that it is also plain to your consciences . * We are not recommending ourselves again to you , but giving occasion to you for boasting on our behalf , that you may have it to use against those who boast of appearances and not of heart . * For if we were out of our minds it was for God , and if we are sane it is for you . * For the love of Christ impels us , convinced of this , that if one died for all , then all died , * and he died for all that the living may no longer live for themselves , but for him who died for them and was raised again . * So we , from now on , know no man according to the flesh . Even if we have known Christ according to the flesh , yet now we know him so no more . * So if any one is in Christ he is a new creature . The old things have passed away , they have become new . * And all things are from God , who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given to us the service of reconciliation \'97 * to proclaim that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself , not counting against men their sins , and that he has committed to us the message of reconciliation . * So we are ambassadors for Christ , as if God were appealing to you through us . We pray you on Christ 's behalf to be reconciled to God . * Him who knew no sin God made sin for our sake that we might become the righteousness of God in him .

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