哥林多後書 5

1 我們原知道，我們這地上的帳棚若拆毀了，必得上帝所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。 2 我們在這帳棚裏歎息，深想得那從天上來的房屋，好像穿上衣服； 3 倘若穿上，被遇見的時候就不至於赤身了。 4 我們在這帳棚裏歎息勞苦，並非願意脫下這個，乃是願意穿上那個，好叫這必死的被生命吞滅了。 5 為此，培植我們的就是上帝，他又賜給我們聖靈作憑據t。

6 所以，我們時常坦然無懼，並且曉得我們住在身內，便與主相離。 7 因我們行事為人是憑著信心，不是憑著眼見。 8 我們坦然無懼，是更願意離開身體與主同住。 9 所以，無論是住在身內，離開身外，我們立了志向，要得主的喜悅。 10 因為我們眾人必要在基督臺前顯露出來，叫各人按著本身所行的，或善或惡受報。

勸人與上帝和好的職分

11 我們既知道主是可畏的，所以勸人。但我們在上帝面前是顯明的，盼望在你們的良心裏也是顯明的。 12 我們不是向你們再舉薦自己，乃是叫你們因我們有可誇之處，好對那憑外貌不憑內心誇口的人，有言可答。 13 我們若果顛狂，是為上帝；若果謹守，是為你們。 14 原來基督的愛激勵我們；因我們想，一人既替眾人死，眾人就都死了； 15 並且他替眾人死，是叫那些活著的人不再為自己活，乃為替他們死而復活的主活。

16 所以，我們從今以後，不憑著外貌t認人了。雖然憑著外貌認過基督，如今卻不再這樣認他了。 17 若有人在基督裏，他就是新造的人，舊事已過，都變成新的了。 18 一切都是出於上帝；他藉著基督使我們與他和好，又將勸人與他和好的職分賜給我們。 19 這就是上帝在基督裏，叫世人與自己和好，不將他們的過犯歸到他們身上，並且將這和好的道理託付了我們。 20 所以，我們作基督的使者，就好像上帝藉我們勸你們一般。我們替基督求你們與上帝和好。 21 上帝使那無罪t的，替我們成為罪，好叫我們在他裏面成為上帝的義。

2 Corinthians 5

Living by Faith, Not by Sight

1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in,s is dismantled,t we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.2 For in this earthly houset we groan, because we desire to put ont our heavenly dwelling,3 if indeed, after we have put ons our heavenly house,t we will not be found naked.4 For we groan while we are in this tent,s since we are weighed down,t because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purposet is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.t6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on eartht we are absent from the Lord –7 for we livet by faith, not by sight.8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be awayt from the body and at home with the Lord.9 So then whether we are alivet or away, we make it our ambition to please him.t

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,s so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.t

The Message of Reconciliation

11 Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord,t we try to persuadet people,t but we are well knownt to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.12 We are not trying to commendt ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us,t so that you may be able to answer those who take pridet in outward appearancet and not in what is in the heart.13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.14 For the love of Christt controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christt died for all; therefore all have died.15 And 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.t16 So then from now on we acknowledget no one from an outward human point of view.t Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view,t now we do not know him in that way any longer.17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed awayt – look, what is news has come!t18 And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given ust the message of reconciliation.20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His pleat through us. We plead with yout on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”

21 Godt made the one who did not know sins to be sin for us, so that in hims we would become the righteousness of God.