Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 For we know
that if our tent—that earthly body which is now our home—is
taken down, we have a house of God's building, a home not
made by hands, imperishable, in Heaven.
2 Even while in our
present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly
dwelling,
3 sure that, when we have put it on, we shall never be
found discarnate.
4 For we who are in this ‘tent’ sigh under
our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our
heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be
absorbed in Life.
5 And he who has prepared us for this change
is God, who has also given us his Spirit as a pledge.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our
home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the
Lord.
7 For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we
see.
8 And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home
in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
9 Therefore,
whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition
is to please him.
10 For at the Bar of the Christ we must
all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results
of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with
his actions—whether good or worthless.
note
11 Therefore, because we know the fear inspired
by the Lord, it is true that we are trying to win
men, but our motives are plain to God; and I
hope that in your inmost hearts they are plain to you also.
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12 We are not “commending ourselves” again to you, but rather
are giving you cause for pride in us, so that you may have an
answer ready for those who pride themselves on appearances
and not on character.
13 For, if we were “beside ourselves,” it
was in God's service! If we are now in our senses, it is in
yours!
14 It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we
reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;
15 and that he
died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves,
but for him who died and rose for them.
16 For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to
regard any one from the world's standpoint. Even if we once
thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now
we do so no longer.
17 Therefore, if any one is in union with
Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a
new life has begun! note
18 But all this is the work of God, who reconciled
us to himself through Christ, and gave us the Ministry of
Reconciliation—to proclaim that God,
19 in Christ, was reconciling
the world to himself, not reckoning men's offences
against them, and that he had entrusted us with the Message
of this reconciliation.
20 It is, then, on Christ's behalf that we are acting as
ambassadors, God, as it were, appealing to you through us.
We implore you on Christ's behalf—Be reconciled to God.
21 Him who never knew sin God made to be Sin, on our
behalf; so that we, through union with him, might become
the Righteousness of God. ⪆⪆
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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