2 Corinthians 5

Assurance of the Resurrection

For we know that if ^aour earthly ¹house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house ^bnot made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this ^awe groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our ¹habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, ^ahaving been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, ^abut further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also ^ahas given us the Spirit as ¹a guarantee.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For ^awe walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, ^awell pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 ^aFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^bthat each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, ^athe terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

Be Reconciled to God

12 For ^awe do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity ^bto boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13 For ^aif we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that ^aif One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, ^athat those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
16 ^aTherefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, ^byet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone ^ais in Christ, he is ^ba new creation; ^cold things have passed away; behold, all things have become ^dnew. 18 Now all things are of God, ^awho has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that ^aGod was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not ¹imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then, we are ^aambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For ^aHe made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become ^bthe righteousness of God in Him.

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