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Awaiting the New Body

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

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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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Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,

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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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because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

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

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For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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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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Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

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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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Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

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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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For we live 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 would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

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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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So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

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

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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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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The Ministry of Reconciliation

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

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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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We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

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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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If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

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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 Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

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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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And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

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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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So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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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, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:a The old has gone, the new is here!

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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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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

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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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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message 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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We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

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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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God made him who had no sin to be sinb for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of 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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2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5