2 Corinthians 5
The Temporal and Eternal
5For we know that if 1the aearthly btent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house cnot made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For indeed in this we agroan, longing to be bclothed with our dwelling from heaven, 3inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. 4For indeed while we are in this tent, we agroan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be bclothed, so that what is cmortal will be swallowed up by life. 5Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who agave to us the Spirit as a 1pledge.
6Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that awhile we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7for awe walk by faith, not by 1sight— 8we are of good courage and aprefer rather to be absent from the body and bto be at home with the Lord. 9Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be apleasing to Him. 10For we must all appear before athe judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for 1his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11So then, knowing the afear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we 1have been made manifest to God; and I hope that we 2have been bmade manifest also in your consciences. 12We are not aagain commending ourselves to you but are giving you an bopportunity to boast of us, so that you will have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13For if we 1are aout of our mind, it is for God, or if we are of right mind, it is for you. 14For the love of Christ acontrols us, having concluded this, that bone died for all, therefore all died. 15And He died for all, so that they who live would no longer alive for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
16Therefore from now on we recognize no one 1,aaccording to the flesh; even though we have known Christ 2according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17Therefore if anyone is ain Christ, he is ba new creation; cthe old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18Now aall these things are from God, bwho reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the cministry of reconciliation, 19namely, that aGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, bnot counting their transgressions against them, and 1He has 2committed to us the word of reconciliation.