Darby Bible Translation

New American Standard Bible

Our Eternal Dwelling

For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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The Temporal and Eternal

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

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For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,

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if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

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inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

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For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

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Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

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Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

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Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

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Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord —

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(for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

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for we walk by faith, not by sight —

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we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

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we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

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Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

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For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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We are Christ's Ambassadors

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.

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Therefore, knowing 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 consciences.

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[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

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We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

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For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.

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For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

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For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

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For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

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and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

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and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

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So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer.

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Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

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So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

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and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

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Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

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how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

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namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him.

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He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

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2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5