 5:1  For 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.
 5:2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon with our house which is from heaven:
 5:3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
 5:4  For 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.
 5:5  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is]
God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
 5:6  Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst
we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
 5:7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
 5:8  We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
 5:9  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we
may be accepted of him.
 5:10  For 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.
 5:11  Knowing 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.
 5:12  For 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.
 5:13  For whether we be beside ourselves, [it is] to God: or
whether we be sober, [it is] for your cause.
 5:14  For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus
judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
 5:15  And [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.
 5:16  Wherefore 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.
 5:17  Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new.
 5:18  And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation;
 5:19  To 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.
 5:20  Now 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.
 5:21  For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no
sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
