| 1 | For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. |
| 2 | For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven; |
| 3 | if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked. |
| 4 | For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life. |
| 5 | Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit. |
| 6 | Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord, |
| 7 | (for we walk by faith, not by sight;) |
| 8 | we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. |
| 9 | Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him. |
| 10 | For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil. |
| 11 | Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences. |
| 12 | [For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart. |
| 13 | For whether we are beside ourselves, [it is] to God; or are sober, [it is] for you. |
| 14 | For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died; |
| 15 | and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised. |
| 16 | So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know [him thus] no longer. |
| 17 | So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new: |
| 18 | and all things [are] of the God who has reconciled us to himself by [Jesus] Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation: |
| 19 | how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation. |
| 20 | We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as [it were] beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God. |
| 21 | Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him. |