2 Corinthians 5 — LSV
5Verse 1For we have known that if the tent of our earthly house may be thrown down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands—perpetual—in the heavens,Verse 2for also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves with our dwelling that is from Heaven,Verse 3if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we will not be found naked,Verse 4for we also who are in the tent groan, being burdened, seeing we do not wish to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of life.Verse 5And He who worked us to this very thing [is] God, who also gave to us the deposit of the Spirit;Verse 6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the LORD—Verse 7for we walk through faith, not through sight—Verse 8we have courage, and are well pleased, rather, to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the LORD.Verse 9We are also ambitious for this reason, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to Him,Verse 10for it is necessary for all of us to have appeared before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;Verse 11having known, therefore, the fear of the LORD, we persuade men, and we are revealed to God, and I also hope to have been revealed in your consciences;Verse 12for we do not again recommend ourselves to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that you may have [something] in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;Verse 13for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind, [it is] to you,Verse 14for the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged thus: that if one died for all, then the whole died,Verse 15and He died for all, that those living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them, and was raised again.Verse 16So that we, from now on, have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him [thus] no longer;Verse 17so that if anyone [is] in Christ—[he is] a new creature; the old things passed away, behold, all things have become new.Verse 18And all things [are] of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of the reconciliation,Verse 19how that God was in Christ—reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,Verse 20in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we implore, in behalf of Christ, “Be reconciled to God”;Verse 21He made Him having not known sin [to be] sin in our behalf, that we may become the righteousness of God in Him.