2 Corinthians 5 (NET)

2 Corinthians 5:1¹For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 19:25-261 John 3:22 Pet 1:13-142 Cor 4:7Heb 9:241 Cor 15:46-48John 14:2-3Heb 11:10Heb 9:111 Pet 1:4

2 Corinthians 5:2²For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:231 Cor 15:53-542 Cor 5:3-4Phil 1:23Rom 7:241 Pet 1:6-7

2 Corinthians 5:3³if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:7-11Rev 16:15Rev 3:18Exod 32:25

2 Corinthians 5:4⁴For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:53-542 Cor 5:2Isa 25:82 Pet 1:13

2 Corinthians 5:5⁵Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 1:22Eph 1:13-14Rom 8:23Eph 4:301 John 3:242 Cor 4:17Eph 2:10Isa 29:23Isa 61:3Num 13:23-27

2 Corinthians 5:6⁶Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:1Phil 3:20-21Heb 13:14Ps 39:121 Chr 29:152 Cor 5:8Heb 10:35Heb 11:13Prov 14:26Ps 27:3-4

2 Corinthians 5:7⁷for we live by faith, not by sight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:1-272 Cor 4:18Rom 8:24-251 Pet 1:8Heb 10:38Gal 2:201 Pet 5:91 Cor 13:122 Cor 1:24Deut 12:9

2 Corinthians 5:8⁸Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 1:20-242 Cor 5:6John 14:31 John 3:22 Cor 12:2-32 Cor 5:92 Tim 4:7-8Ps 16:11Ps 17:15Ps 73:23-26

2 Corinthians 5:9⁹So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:102 Pet 3:14Rom 14:181 Thess 4:111 Tim 4:10Gen 4:71 Cor 15:581 Cor 9:26-271 Thess 4:12 Pet 1:10-11

2 Corinthians 5:10¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 16:27Rev 22:12Eccl 12:14Eph 6:8Ps 62:12Rom 2:5-101 Cor 4:5Ps 98:91 Pet 4:5Jude 1:14-15

2 Corinthians 5:11¹¹Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jude 1:23Heb 10:312 Tim 2:24-262 Cor 4:1-2Luke 12:5Rev 20:151 Thess 2:3-122 Cor 1:12-142 Cor 5:202 Cor 6:1

2 Corinthians 5:12¹²We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:12 Cor 1:14Gal 6:12-142 Cor 10:182 Cor 11:12-162 Cor 10:122 Cor 10:82 Cor 12:1-92 Cor 12:112 Cor 6:4

2 Corinthians 5:13¹³For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 11:16-172 Cor 12:62 Cor 11:1Rom 12:31 Cor 4:10-132 Cor 12:11Acts 26:24-252 Sam 6:21-221 Thess 1:51 Thess 2:3-11

2 Corinthians 5:14¹⁴For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:20Rom 14:7-9Matt 10:37-381 Pet 1:8Matt 20:28Rom 5:15Eph 3:18-19John 14:21-23John 1:292 Cor 3:9

2 Corinthians 5:15¹⁵And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:7-91 Pet 4:2-41 Pet 1:14-15Col 3:1Col 3:17Gal 2:19-201 John 4:9Titus 2:141 Cor 6:19-20Gal 5:25

2 Corinthians 5:16¹⁶So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:11John 6:63Phil 3:7-8Jas 2:1-4Jas 3:17Gal 5:6John 15:141 Tim 5:21-22Gal 2:5-6John 2:4

2 Corinthians 5:17¹⁷So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away —look, what is new has come!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:26Eph 4:22-24Isa 43:18-19John 3:3Ps 51:10Ezek 11:19Col 3:1-10Rom 8:1Gal 6:15Eph 2:10

2 Corinthians 5:18¹⁸And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:20-21Rom 5:10-112 Cor 5:19-20Eph 2:16-171 John 4:10Rom 5:1Rom 11:361 John 2:2Col 1:16-17Acts 13:38-39

2 Corinthians 5:19¹⁹In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:25Isa 44:221 John 2:1-21 John 4:101 Tim 3:16Ps 32:1-2Rom 4:6-8Col 2:9Rom 3:24-26John 17:23

2 Corinthians 5:20²⁰Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:20Luke 14:23Mal 2:7Ezek 18:31-32Isa 55:6-7Luke 10:16John 20:212 Cor 5:112 Cor 3:61 Thess 4:8

2 Corinthians 5:21²¹God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:22-241 Pet 3:18Rom 5:191 Cor 1:30Gal 3:131 John 3:5Phil 3:9Isa 53:4-62 Cor 5:17Heb 4:15