2 Corinthians 5 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Temporal and Eternal

1For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our celestial dwelling,

3so that by putting it on we will not be found naked.

4For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, not that we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

5Now He who has made us and prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a pledge.

6So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

7for we walk by faith, not by sight—

8we are of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

9Therefore, whether we are at home or away from home, it is our ambition to be pleasing to Him.

10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be repaid for what has been done in the body, whether good or bad.

11Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we persuade people. But we are plainly known to God; and I hope that we are plainly known also in your consciences.

12We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearances rather than what is in heart.

13If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit.

14For the love of Christ controls and compels us, because we have concluded this, that One died for all, therefore all died;

15and He died for all, so that all those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and was raised for their sake.

16So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.

17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.

18But all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

19that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

20So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us; we plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.

21He made Christ who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God.