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2 Corinthians 5

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1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

3 So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

4 For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

6 So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

8 We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.

9 For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

10 For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

11 Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

13 For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

18 But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

19 That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Good News Translation GNT

1 For we know that when this tent we live in - our body here on earth - is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.

2 And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;

3 by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.

4 While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body, but that we want to have the heavenly one put on over us, so that what is mortal will be transformed by life.

5 God is the one who has prepared us for this change, and he gave us his Spirit as the guarantee of all that he has in store for us.

6 So we are always full of courage. We know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord's home.

7 For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.

8 We are full of courage and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and be at home with the Lord.

9 More than anything else, however, we want to please him, whether in our home here or there.

10 For all of us must appear before Christ, to be judged by him. We will each receive what we deserve, according to everything we have done, good or bad, in our bodily life.

11 We know what it means to fear the Lord, and so we try to persuade others. God knows us completely, and I hope that in your hearts you know me as well.

12 We are not trying again to recommend ourselves to you; rather, we are trying to give you a good reason to be proud of us, so that you will be able to answer those who boast about people's appearance and not about their character.

13 Are we really insane? It is for God's sake. Or are we sane? Then it is for your sake.

14 We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

15 He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.

16 No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.

17 Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.

18 All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.

19 Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.

20 Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!

21 Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.