2Corinthians - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 1. For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 2. For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
  • 3. if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
  • 4. For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
  • 5. Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • 6. Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
  • 7. (for we walk by faith, not by sight);
  • 8. 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.
  • 9. Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
  • 10. For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things {cf15i done} in the body, according to what he hath done, whether {cf15i it be} good or bad.
  • 11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
  • 12. We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but {cf15i speak} as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
  • 13. For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
  • 14. For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
  • 15. and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • 16. Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know {cf15i him so} no more.
  • 17. Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {cf15i he is} a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
  • 18. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
  • 19. to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • 20. We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech {cf15i you} on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
  • 21. Him who knew no sin he made {cf15i to be} sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
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