Darby Bible Translation

New King James Version

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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Assurance of the Resurrection

For we know that if our earthly [a]house, this tent, is destroyed, 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 in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our [b]habitation which is from heaven,

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

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if indeed, having been clothed, we shall 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 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.

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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 has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as [c]a guarantee.

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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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So we are always confident, 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 confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present 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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The Judgment Seat of Christ

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well 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, that each one may receive the things done 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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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.

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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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Be Reconciled to God

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.

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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; or 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 compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then 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, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

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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 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.

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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 creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

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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 things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given 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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that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not [d]imputing their trespasses to them, and 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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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.

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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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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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New King James Version

2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5