52 Corinthians 5

1For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.Select 2 Corinthians 5:1

2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our house which is from heaven:Select 2 Corinthians 5:2

3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.Select 2 Corinthians 5:3

4For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.Select 2 Corinthians 5:4

5Now he that hath wrought us for this same thing [is] God, who also hath given to us the earnest of the Spirit.Select 2 Corinthians 5:5

6Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:Select 2 Corinthians 5:6

7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)Select 2 Corinthians 5:7

8We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.Select 2 Corinthians 5:8

9Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.Select 2 Corinthians 5:9

10For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to what he hath done, whether good or bad.Select 2 Corinthians 5:10

11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.Select 2 Corinthians 5:11

12For we commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer] them who glory in appearance, and not in heart.Select 2 Corinthians 5:12

13For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or whether we are sober, [it is] for your cause.Select 2 Corinthians 5:13

14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:Select 2 Corinthians 5:14

15And [that] he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.Select 2 Corinthians 5:15

16Wherefore henceforth we know no man according to the flesh: though indeed we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know [him] no more.Select 2 Corinthians 5:16

17Therefore, if any man [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.Select 2 Corinthians 5:17

18And all things [are] from God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;Select 2 Corinthians 5:18

19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.Select 2 Corinthians 5:19

20Now then we are embassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.Select 2 Corinthians 5:20

21For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.Select 2 Corinthians 5:21