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| 5:1 |
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,eternal in the heavens.
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| 5:2 |
Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling,
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| 5:3 |
so that by putting it on we may not be found naked.
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| 5:4 |
For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety;not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be furtherclothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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| 5:5 |
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
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| 5:6 |
So we are always of good courage;we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
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| 5:7 |
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
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| 5:8 |
We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
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| 5:9 |
So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
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| 5:10 |
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to whathe has done in the body.
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| 5:11 |
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men;but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
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| 5:12 |
We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who pride themselves on a man's position and not on his heart.
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| 5:13 |
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God;if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
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| 5:14 |
For the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all;therefore all have died.
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| 5:15 |
And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
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| 5:16 |
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view;even though we once regarded Christ from a human point of view, we regard him thus no longer.
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| 5:17 |
Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation;the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
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| 5:18 |
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
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| 5:19 |
that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrustingto us the message of reconciliation.
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| 5:20 |
So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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| 5:21 |
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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