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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. | 1For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. |
| 2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, | 2For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, |
| 3if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. | 3if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. |
| 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. | 4For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal 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. | 5He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the 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. | 6So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, |
| 7For we walk by faith, not by sight. | 7for we walk 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. | 8Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home 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, we make it our aim to please 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 we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. |
| 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, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. |
| 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 commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. |
| 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. | 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. |
| 14For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; | 14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all 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. | 15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. |
| 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. | 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. |
| 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 Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. |
| 18Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, | 18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave 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. | 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. |
| 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 ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, 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. | 21For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. |
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