The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 scimus enim quoniam si terrestris domus nostra huius habitationis dissolvatur quod aedificationem ex Deo habeamus domum non manufactam aeternam in caelis
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For 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.
2 nam et in hoc ingemescimus habitationem nostram quae de caelo est superindui cupientes
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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
3 si tamen vestiti non nudi inveniamur
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if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
4 nam et qui sumus in tabernaculo ingemescimus gravati eo quod nolumus expoliari sed supervestiri ut absorbeatur quod mortale est a vita
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For 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.
5 qui autem efficit nos in hoc ipsum Deus qui dedit nobis pignus Spiritus
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Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 audentes igitur semper et scientes quoniam dum sumus in corpore peregrinamur a Domino
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So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
7 per fidem enim ambulamus et non per speciem
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For we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 audemus autem et bonam voluntatem habemus magis peregrinari a corpore et praesentes esse ad Deum
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We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
9 et ideo contendimus sive absentes sive praesentes placere illi
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Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
10 omnes enim nos manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi ut referat unusquisque propria corporis prout gessit sive bonum sive malum
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For 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.
11 scientes ergo timorem Domini hominibus suademus Deo autem manifesti sumus spero autem et in conscientiis vestris manifestos nos esse
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Knowing, 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.
12 non iterum nos commendamus vobis sed occasionem damus vobis gloriandi pro nobis ut habeatis ad eos qui in facie gloriantur et non in corde
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For 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.
13 sive enim mente excedimus Deo sive sobrii sumus vobis
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For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
14 caritas enim Christi urget nos aestimantes hoc quoniam si unus pro omnibus mortuus est ergo omnes mortui sunt
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For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
15 et pro omnibus mortuus est ut et qui vivunt iam non sibi vivant sed ei qui pro ipsis mortuus est et resurrexit
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and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
16 itaque nos ex hoc neminem novimus secundum carnem et si cognovimus secundum carnem Christum sed nunc iam non novimus
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Therefore, 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.
17 si qua ergo in Christo nova creatura vetera transierunt ecce facta sunt nova
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 omnia autem ex Deo qui reconciliavit nos sibi per Christum et dedit nobis ministerium reconciliationis
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Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 quoniam quidem Deus erat in Christo mundum reconcilians sibi non reputans illis delicta ipsorum et posuit in nobis verbum reconciliationis
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that 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.
20 pro Christo ergo legationem fungimur tamquam Deo exhortante per nos obsecramus pro Christo reconciliamini Deo
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Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
21 eum qui non noverat peccatum pro nobis peccatum fecit ut nos efficeremur iustitia Dei in ipso
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For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.