{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/co2005.htm","path":"bib/kjv/co2005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/co2005.htm","text":"1\u00a0For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.\n \n2\u00a0For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:\n \n3\u00a0If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.\n \n4\u00a0For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.\n \n5\u00a0Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.\n \n6\u00a0Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:\n \n7\u00a0(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)\n \n8\u00a0We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.\n \n9\u00a0Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.\n \n10\u00a0For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.\n \n11\u00a0Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.\n \n12\u00a0For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.\n \n13\u00a0For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.\n \n14\u00a0For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:\n \n15\u00a0And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.\n \n16\u00a0Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.\n \n17\u00a0Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.\n \n18\u00a0And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;\n \n19\u00a0To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.\n \n20\u00a0Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.\n \n21\u00a0For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.","title":"King James Version: 2 Corinthians: 2 Corinthians Chapter 5","type":"page"}