English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Corinthians Book, chapter 5, verse 17 in Hcsb Version

2 Corinthians 5 : 1 (HCSB)

For we know that if our earthly house, a tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 5 : 2 (HCSB)

And, in fact, we groan in this one, longing to put on our house from heaven,

2 Corinthians 5 : 3 (HCSB)

since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

2 Corinthians 5 : 4 (HCSB)

Indeed, we who are in this tent groan, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

2 Corinthians 5 : 5 (HCSB)

And the One who prepared us for this very thing is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

2 Corinthians 5 : 6 (HCSB)

Therefore, though we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord--

2 Corinthians 5 : 7 (HCSB)

for we walk by faith, not by sight--

2 Corinthians 5 : 8 (HCSB)

yet we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5 : 9 (HCSB)

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

2 Corinthians 5 : 10 (HCSB)

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5 : 11 (HCSB)

Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

2 Corinthians 5 : 12 (HCSB)

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.

2 Corinthians 5 : 13 (HCSB)

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we have a sound mind, it is for you.

2 Corinthians 5 : 14 (HCSB)

For Christ's love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: if One died for all, then all died.

2 Corinthians 5 : 15 (HCSB)

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

2 Corinthians 5 : 16 (HCSB)

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that.

2 Corinthians 5 : 17 (HCSB)

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

2 Corinthians 5 : 18 (HCSB)

Now everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

2 Corinthians 5 : 19 (HCSB)

that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

2 Corinthians 5 : 20 (HCSB)

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God."

2 Corinthians 5 : 21 (HCSB)

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.