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2 Corinthians 5
New King James Version

### Assurance of the Resurrection

5 For we know that if (A)our earthly [a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house (B)not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this (C)we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our [b]habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, (D)having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, (E)but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also (F)has given us the Spirit as [c]a guarantee.

6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For (G)we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, (H)well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

### The Judgment Seat of Christ

9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 (I)For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, (J)that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, (K)the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

### Be Reconciled to God

12 For (L)we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you opportunity (M)to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. 13 For (N)if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that (O)if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, (P)that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

16 (Q)Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, (R)yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone (S)is in Christ, he is (T)a new creation; (U)old things have passed away; behold, all things have become (V)new. 18 Now all things are of God, (W)who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that (X)God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not [d]imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then, we are (Y)ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For (Z)He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become (AA)the righteousness of God in Him.

#### Footnotes

1. 2 Corinthians 5:1 Physical body
2. 2 Corinthians 5:2 dwelling
3. 2 Corinthians 5:5 down payment, earnest
4. 2 Corinthians 5:19 reckoning

#### Cross references

1. 2 Corinthians 5:1 : Job 4:19; 1 Cor. 15:47; 2 Cor. 4:7
2. 2 Corinthians 5:1 : Mark 14:58; Acts 7:48; Heb. 9:11, 24
3. 2 Corinthians 5:2 : Rom. 8:23; 2 Cor. 5:4
4. 2 Corinthians 5:3 : Rev. 3:18
5. 2 Corinthians 5:4 : 1 Cor. 15:53
6. 2 Corinthians 5:5 : Rom. 8:23; [2 Cor. 1:22]; Eph. 1:14
7. 2 Corinthians 5:7 : Rom. 8:24; Heb. 11:1
8. 2 Corinthians 5:8 : Phil. 1:23
9. 2 Corinthians 5:10 : Matt. 16:27; Acts 10:42; Rom. 2:16; 14:10, 12
10. 2 Corinthians 5:10 : Gal. 6:7; Eph. 6:8
11. 2 Corinthians 5:11 : [Heb. 10:31; 12:29; Jude 23]
12. 2 Corinthians 5:12 : 2 Cor. 3:1
13. 2 Corinthians 5:12 : 2 Cor. 1:14; Phil. 1:26
14. 2 Corinthians 5:13 : Mark 3:21; 2 Cor. 11:1, 16; 12:11
15. 2 Corinthians 5:14 : [Rom. 5:15; 6:6; Gal. 2:20; Col. 3:3]
16. 2 Corinthians 5:15 : [Rom. 6:11]
17. 2 Corinthians 5:16 : 2 Cor. 10:3
18. 2 Corinthians 5:16 : [Matt. 12:50]
19. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : [John 6:63]
20. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : [Rom. 8:9]
21. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : Is. 43:18; 65:17; [Eph. 4:24]; Rev. 21:4
22. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : [Rom. 6:3–10; Col. 3:3]
23. 2 Corinthians 5:18 : Rom. 5:10; [Eph. 2:16; Col. 1:20]
24. 2 Corinthians 5:19 : [Rom. 3:24]
25. 2 Corinthians 5:20 : Mal. 2:7; Eph. 6:20
26. 2 Corinthians 5:21 : Is. 53:6, 9
27. 2 Corinthians 5:21 : [Rom. 1:17; 3:21]; 1 Cor. 1:30

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