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          DASV: 2 Corinthians 5    

1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed,
we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our
heavenly dwelling,
3 if by being so clothed we will not be found naked.
4 For while we are still in this tent we groan, being burdened;
because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so
that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5 Now he who prepared us for this very thing is God, who
gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at
home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 We are absolutely confident, and we would rather to be
absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9 Therefore we make it our aim, that whether at home in
the body or away, to be pleasing to him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
so that each one may be repaid for what was done in the body,
according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade
men, but we are well known to God; and I hope that we
are also well known to your consciences.
12 We are not trying to again commend ourselves to you,
but giving you opportunity for boasting about us, that
you may be able to answer those who boast in external
appearance, rather than about what is in the heart.
13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we
are in our right mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have
concluded that one died for all, therefore all died.
15 He died for all, so that those who live should no
longer live for themselves, but for him who died and
rose again for their sakes.
16 From now on, then, we regard no one according to a
human perspective; even though we have known Christ
according to a human perspective, yet now we do not
regard him like that anymore.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation, the old has passed away; look, the new
has come.
18 But all this is from God, who reconciled us to
himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry
of reconciliation;
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to
himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and has entrusted the message of reconciliation to us.
20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God was
making his appeal through us. We urge you on behalf of
Christ: Be reconciled to God.
21 God made him who knew no sin to be sin for our sake;
so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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