The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 05
1 For we know that if the earthly house
of our tent is dissolved, we have a building
from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal, in the heavens.
2 For most certainly in this we groan,
longing to be clothed with our habitation
which is from heaven,
3 if indeed being clothed, we will not be
found naked.
4 For indeed we who are in this tent do
groan, being burdened, not that we desire
to be unclothed, but that we desire to be
clothed, that what is mortal may be
swallowed up by life.
5 Now he who made us for this very
thing is God, who also gave to us the down
payment of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident and
know that while we are at home in the
body, we are absent from the Lord;
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 We are courageous, I say, and are
willing rather to be absent from the body and
to be at home with the Lord.
9 Therefore also we make it our aim,
whether at home or absent, to be well
pleasing to him.
10 For we must all be revealed before the
judgment seat of Christ that each one may
receive the things in the body according to
what he has done, whether good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the fear of the
Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed
to God, and I hope that we are revealed
also in your consciences.
12 For we are not commending ourselves
to you again, but speak as giving you
occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you
may have something to answer those who
boast in appearance and not in heart.
13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for
God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ compels us; because
we judge thus: that one died for all,
therefore all died.
15 He died for all, that those who live
should no longer live to themselves, but
to him who for their sakes died and rose
again.
16 Therefore we know no one according
to the flesh from now on. Even though we
have known Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know him so no more.
17 There fore if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation. The old things have passed
away. Behold,† all things have become new.
18 But all things are of God, who reconciled
us to himself through Jesus Christ,
and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling
the world to himself, not reckoning
to them their trespasses, and having
committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf
of Christ, as though God were entreating
by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
21 For him who knew no sin he made to
be sin on our behalf, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.