2 Corinthians 5
World English Bible (WEB) • 21 verses
1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
RelatedJob 19:25-26 · 1 John 3:2 · 2 Peter 1:13-14 · 2 Corinthians 4:7 · Hebrews 9:24 · 1 Corinthians 15:46-48
2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
RelatedRomans 8:23 · 1 Corinthians 15:53-54 · Philippians 1:23 · Romans 7:24 · 2 Corinthians 5:3-4 · 1 Peter 1:6-7
3if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
Related2 Corinthians 1:22 · Ephesians 1:13-14 · Romans 8:23 · Ephesians 4:30 · 1 John 3:24 · Isaiah 29:23
6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
Related2 Corinthians 5:1 · Philippians 3:20-21 · Psalms 39:12 · Hebrews 13:14 · 2 Corinthians 5:8 · Proverbs 14:26
7for we walk by faith, not by sight.
RelatedHebrews 11:1-27 · 2 Corinthians 4:18 · Romans 8:24-25 · 1 Peter 1:8 · Hebrews 10:38 · Galatians 2:20
8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
RelatedPhilippians 1:20-24 · 2 Corinthians 5:6 · John 14:3 · 1 John 3:2 · 2 Corinthians 12:2-3 · Psalms 16:11
9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
RelatedColossians 1:10 · 2 Peter 3:14 · Romans 14:18 · 1 Thessalonians 4:11 · 1 Timothy 4:10 · Genesis 4:7
10For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
RelatedMatthew 16:27 · Revelation 22:12 · Ecclesiastes 12:14 · Ephesians 6:8 · Psalms 62:12 · Romans 2:5-10
11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
RelatedJude 1:23 · Hebrews 10:31 · 2 Timothy 2:24-26 · 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 · Revelation 20:15 · Luke 12:5
12For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
Related2 Corinthians 3:1 · 2 Corinthians 1:14 · Galatians 6:12-14 · 2 Corinthians 10:18 · 2 Corinthians 11:12-16 · Proverbs 27:2
13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
Related2 Corinthians 11:16-17 · 2 Corinthians 12:6 · Romans 12:3 · 2 Corinthians 11:1 · Acts 26:24-25 · 1 Corinthians 4:10-13
14For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
RelatedGalatians 2:20 · Romans 14:7-9 · Matthew 10:37-38 · 1 Peter 1:8 · Romans 5:15 · Matthew 20:28
15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
RelatedRomans 14:7-9 · 1 Peter 4:2-4 · 1 Peter 1:14-15 · Colossians 3:1 · Colossians 3:17 · Galatians 2:19-20
16Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
RelatedEzekiel 36:26 · Ephesians 4:22-24 · Isaiah 43:18-19 · John 3:3 · Psalms 51:10 · Ezekiel 11:19
18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
RelatedColossians 1:20-21 · Romans 5:10-11 · 2 Corinthians 5:19-20 · Ephesians 2:16-17 · 1 John 4:10 · Romans 5:1
19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Related1 Peter 2:22-24 · 1 Peter 3:18 · Romans 5:19 · Galatians 3:13 · 1 Corinthians 1:30 · 1 John 3:5
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