Thematic Bible




2 Corinthians 5:1 (show verse)

For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:2 (show verse)

For in this one I am sighing, because I long to put on, like a robe, my heavenly body, my future home,

2 Corinthians 5:3 (show verse)

and if I do put it on, I shall not find myself to be disembodied.

2 Corinthians 5:4 (show verse)

For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens, because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life.

2 Corinthians 5:5 (show verse)

Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss.

2 Corinthians 5:6 (show verse)

So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:7 (show verse)

(for here I live by what I believe and not by what I see),

2 Corinthians 5:8 (show verse)

and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:9 (show verse)

So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (show verse)

For we must all appear before the judgment-bar of Christ, that each may get his pay for what he has done, whether it be good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:11 (show verse)

So, since I know what the fear of God can do, I am trying to win men. My inner self is perfectly known to God, and I hope, to your consciences too.

2 Corinthians 5:12 (show verse)

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you ground for speaking well of me, that you may have something to say to those who are constantly prating about external privileges and not concerned about the state of the heart.

2 Corinthians 5:13 (show verse)

For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.
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2 Corinthians 5:14 (show verse)

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died,

2 Corinthians 5:15 (show verse)

and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

2 Corinthians 5:16 (show verse)

So from this moment on, I do not estimate anybody by the standard of outward appearances. Although I once did estimate Christ by this standard, I do not do so any longer.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (show verse)

For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.

2 Corinthians 5:18 (show verse)

This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:19 (show verse)

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:20 (show verse)

So I am an envoy to represent Christ, because it is through me that God is making His appeal. As one representing Christ I beg you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (show verse)

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.