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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for we walk by faith, not by sight. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For 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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