2 Corinthians · Chapter 5
2 Corinthians 5
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Our Eternal Dwelling
(Romans 8:18–27)
1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,
3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
5And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
6Therefore we are always confident, although 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.
8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
9So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.
10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
Ambassadors for Christ
11Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
12We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.
13If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!*
18All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.*
Source notes
Old Testament references
References from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Text from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
Psalms 56:9Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:8Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
Genesis 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Exodus 32:25Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.