2Corinthians:5

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* For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle is dissolved , we have a building from God , a house not made with hands , eternal , in the heavens . * For truly in this we groan , longing to be clothed on with our habitation which is from heaven : * if so be that being unclothed we will not be found naked . * For indeed we who are in this tabernacle groan , being burdened ; not that we want to be unclothed , but that we want to be clothed , that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life . * Now he who worked us for this very thing is God , who gave to us the security deposit of the Spirit . * Being therefore always of good courage , and 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 of good courage , I say , and are willing rather to be absent from the body , and to be at home with the Lord . * Therefore we also make it our aim , whether at home or absent , to be well-pleasing to him . * For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that each may receive the things [done ] in the body , according to what he has participated in , whether [it is ] good or bad . * Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord , we persuade men , but we are made manifest to God ; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your (note :){+}(:note ) consciences . * We are not again commending ourselves to you (note :){+}(:note ), but [speak ] as giving you {+} occasion of glorying on our behalf , that you {+} may have the means to answer those who glory in appearance , and not in heart . * For whether we are beside ourselves , it is to God ; or whether we are of sober mind , it is to you (note :){+}(:note ). * For the love of Christ constrains us ; because we thus judge , that one died for all , therefore all died ; * and he died for all , that those who live should no longer live to themselves , but to him who for their sakes died and rose again . * Therefore we from now on know no man after the flesh : even though we have known Christ after the flesh , yet now we know [him so ] no more . * Therefore if any man is in Christ , [he is ] a new creation : the old things are passed away ; look , they have become new . * But all things are of God , who reconciled us to himself through Christ , and gave to us the service of reconciliation ; * to wit , that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself , not reckoning to them their trespasses , and having committed to us the word of reconciliation . * We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ , as though God were entreating by us : we urge [you (note :){+}(:note )] on behalf of Christ , be {+} reconciled to God . * Him who knew no sin he made [to be ] sin on our behalf ; that we might become the righteousness of God in him .

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