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2 Corinthians 5

The Temporal and Eternal

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For 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.

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For indeed in this house we  agroan, longing to be  bclothed with our dwelling from heaven,

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inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

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For 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.

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Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who  agave to us the Spirit as a  1pledge.

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Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that  awhile we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

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for  awe walk by faith, not by  1sight--

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we are of good courage, I say, and  aprefer rather to be absent from the body and  bto be at home with the Lord.

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Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be  apleasing to Him.

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For 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.

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Therefore, knowing the  afear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are  bmade manifest also in your consciences.

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We are not  aagain commending ourselves to you but are giving you an  boccasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

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For if we  1are  abeside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

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For the love of Christ  acontrols us, having concluded this, that  bone died for all, therefore all died;

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and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer  alive for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

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Therefore from now on we recognize no one  1 aaccording to the flesh; even though we have known Christ  1according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

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Therefore if anyone is  ain Christ,  1he is  ba new creature;  cthe old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

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Now  aall these things are from God,  bwho reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the  cministry of reconciliation,

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namely, that  aGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,  bnot counting their trespasses against them, and  1He has  2committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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Therefore, we are  aambassadors for Christ,  bas though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be  creconciled to God.

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He made Him who  aknew no sin to be  bsin on our behalf, so that we might become the  crighteousness of God in Him.



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