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| 1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. | 1We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands. |
| 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, | 2For in this one we sigh, since we long to put on our heavenly dwelling. |
| 3if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. | 3Of course, if we do put it on, we will not be found without a body. |
| 4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. | 4So while we are still in this tent, we sigh under our burdens, because we do not want to put it off but to put it on, so that our dying bodies may be swallowed up by life. |
| 5Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. | 5God has prepared us for this and has given us his Spirit as a guarantee. |
| 6So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. | 6Therefore, we are always confident, and we know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord. |
| 7For we walk by faith, not by sight. | 7For we live by faith, not by sight. |
| 8We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. | 8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord. |
| 9Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. | 9So whether we are at home or away from home, our goal is to be pleasing to him. |
| 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. | 10For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless. |
| 11Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences. | 11Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade people. We ourselves are perfectly known to God. I hope we are also really known to your consciences. |
| 12For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. | 12We are not recommending ourselves to you again but are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who are proud of outward things rather than inward character. |
| 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. | 13So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you. |
| 14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; | 14The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died. |
| 15and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. | 15He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them. |
| 16Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. | 16So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view. Even if we did think of the Messiah from a human point of view, we don't think of him that way anymore. |
| 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. | 17Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new! |
| 18Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, | 18All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, |
| 19that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. | 19for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us. |
| 20Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. | 20Therefore, we are the Messiah's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah's behalf: "Be reconciled to God!" |
| 21For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. | 21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us. |
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