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For we know that if our earthly tabernacle-house be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.
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For also in this we groan, longing to clothe ourselves with our dwelling which is from heaven,
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if indeed also when clothed we shall not be found naked.
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For also we that are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened, because we desire not to be unclothed but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
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Now he that wrought us for this very thing [is] God, that gave us the earnest of the Spirit.
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Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, while present in the body, we are absent from the Lord
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(for we walk by faith, not by appearance),
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we are confident and well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
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Wherefore also we are zealous that, whether present or absent, we may be agreeable to him.
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For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body according to what he did, whether good or evil.
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Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men; but we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences.
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For we are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion to boast on our behalf, that ye may have [it] with those boasting in face and not in heart.
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For whether we were beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you.
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For the love of Christ constraineth us, having judged this, that if one died for all, then they all were dead;
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and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for them died and rose.
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So that we henceforth know no one as to flesh: if we have even known Christ as to flesh, yet now are we no longer knowing [him];
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so that, if one [is] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, they are become new.
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And they all [are] of God that reconciled us to himself by Christ and gave to us the ministry of the reconciliation:
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how that it was God in Christ reconciling [the] world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences, and putting in us the word of the reconciliation.
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For Christ then we are ambassadors, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God:
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him that knew not sin he made sin for us, that we might become God’s righteousness in him.