2 Corinthians 5

2 Corinthians 5:1-5

¹For 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. ²For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, ³if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴For 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. ⁵Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

If the earthly tent is dissolved, we have an eternal house from God; we groan to be clothed with heavenly habitation so mortality is swallowed by life, God having given the Spirit as guarantee.

2 Corinthians 5:6

⁶Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:7

⁷for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:8-10

⁸We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. ¹⁰For 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.

We are willing rather to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord; whether home or away we make it our aim to be well pleasing to Him, for all must appear before Christ’s judgment seat.

2 Corinthians 5:11-15

¹¹Knowing 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. ¹²For 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. ¹³For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you. ¹⁴For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died. ¹⁵He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Knowing the fear of the Lord, Paul persuades people; Christ’s love constrains him—One died for all so the living would no longer live to themselves but to Him who died and rose for them.

2 Corinthians 5:16

¹⁶Therefore 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.

From now on Paul regards no one according to the flesh; even knowing Christ after the flesh, he does so no longer.

2 Corinthians 5:17

¹⁷Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

If anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation: the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19

¹⁸But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹namely, 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.

All this is from God, who reconciled us through Christ and gave us the ministry and word of reconciliation—not counting trespasses, making His appeal in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

²⁰We 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. ²¹For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

As Christ’s ambassadors, we plead “Be reconciled to God”; God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God’s righteousness in Him.

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