2 Corinthians 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.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Job 4:19 · Job 19:25 · Job 30:22 · Ps 56:9 · Mark 14:58 · +17 more

2For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,Cross-references: Rom 7:24 · Rom 8:23 · 1Cor 15:53 · 2Cor 5:3 · Phil 1:23 · 1Pet 1:6

3if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.Cross-references: Gen 3:7 · Ex 32:25 · Rev 3:18 · Rev 16:15

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.Cross-references: Isa 25:8 · 1Cor 15:53 · 2Cor 5:2 · 2Pet 1:13

5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.Cross-references: Num 13:23 · Isa 29:23 · Isa 60:21 · Isa 61:3 · Rom 8:23 · 2Cor 1:22 · +5 more

6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;Cross-references: 1Chr 29:15 · Ps 27:3 · Ps 39:12 · Ps 119:19 · Prov 14:26 · Isa 30:15 · +9 more

7for we walk by faith, not by sight.Cross-references: Deut 12:9 · Rom 8:24 · 1Cor 13:12 · 2Cor 1:24 · 2Cor 4:18 · Gal 2:20 · +4 more

8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.Cross-references: Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 73:23 · Matt 25:21 · Matt 25:23 · Luke 2:29 · +14 more

9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Isa 56:7 · John 6:27 · Acts 10:35 · Rom 14:8 · Rom 14:18 · +15 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · 1Sam 2:3 · 1Sam 2:10 · 1Ki 8:32 · 1Ki 8:39 · Job 34:11 · +30 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 35:5 · Job 6:4 · Job 18:11 · Job 31:23 · Ps 73:19 · Ps 76:7 · +30 more

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.Cross-references: Prov 27:2 · 2Cor 1:14 · 2Cor 3:1 · 2Cor 6:4 · 2Cor 10:8 · 2Cor 10:12 · +5 more

13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.Cross-references: 2Sam 6:21 · Acts 26:24 · Rom 12:3 · 1Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 7:12 · 2Cor 11:1 · +7 more

14For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Song 1:4 · Song 8:6 · Isa 53:6 · Matt 10:37 · Matt 20:28 · +33 more

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:17 · Ezek 16:6 · Ezek 37:9 · Ezek 37:14 · Hab 2:4 · Zech 10:9 · +33 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 33:9 · 1Sam 2:29 · Matt 10:37 · Matt 12:48 · Mark 3:31 · John 2:4 · +10 more

17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.Cross-references: Ps 51:10 · Isa 43:18 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 45:24 · Isa 65:17 · Ezek 11:19 · +36 more

18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;Cross-references: Lev 6:30 · Isa 52:7 · Isa 57:19 · Ezek 45:15 · Dan 9:24 · Mark 16:15 · +20 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 32:1 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 44:22 · Matt 1:23 · John 14:10 · John 14:20 · +8 more

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.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Job 22:21 · Job 33:6 · Job 33:23 · +19 more

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.Cross-references: Isa 45:24 · Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:9 · Jer 23:26 · Jer 33:16 · Dan 9:24 · +21 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →