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For we know that if the tent of our earthly house should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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And indeed, in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven,
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if indeed also having been clothed, we will not be found naked.
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And indeed, being in the tent we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Now the One having prepared us for this very purpose is God, having given to us the pledge of the Spirit,
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always being confident, then, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
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For we walk by faith, not by sight.
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Now we are confident and are pleased rather to be absent out of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
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Therefore also we are ambitious, whether being at home or being away, to be well-pleasing to Him.
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For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ, that each may receive back the things done through the body according to what he did, whether good or evil.
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Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. And we have been made manifest to God, and I hope to have been made manifest in your consciences also.
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We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving to you occasion of boasting on behalf of us, so that you may have an answer toward those boasting in appearance, and not in the heart.
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For if we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or if we are sober-minded it is for you.
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For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this, that One has died for all, therefore all have died.
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And He died for all that those living no longer should live to themselves, but to the One having died for them and having been raised again.
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Therefore from now, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have regarded Christ according to flesh, yet now we regard Him thus no longer.
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, the new has come into being.
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Now all things are of God, the One having reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and having given to us the ministry of reconciliation:
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Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is beseeching through us. We implore on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
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He made the One not having known sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.