1 F or 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 F or indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which from heaven;

3 i f indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

4 F or indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5 N ow he that has wrought us for this very thing God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

6 T herefore 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 w e are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

9 W herefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

10 F or we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things in the body, according to those he has done, whether good or evil.

11 K nowing 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 w e do not again commend ourselves to you, but giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

13 F or whether we are beside ourselves, to God; or are sober, for you.

14 F or the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

15 a nd 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 S o that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know no longer.

17 S o if any one in Christ, a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

18 a nd all things of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

19 h ow 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 W e are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

21 H im who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.