哥林多后书 5

1 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐棚若拆毁了，必得　神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。 2 我们在这帐棚里叹息，深想得那从天上来的房屋，好像穿上衣服； 3 倘若穿上，被遇见的时候就不至于赤身了。 4 我们在这帐棚里叹息劳苦，并非愿意脱下这个，乃是愿意穿上那个，好叫这必死的被生命吞灭了。 5 为此，培植我们的就是　神，他又赐给我们圣灵作凭据t。

6 所以，我们时常坦然无惧，并且晓得我们住在身内，便与主相离。 7 因我们行事为人是凭着信心，不是凭着眼见。 8 我们坦然无惧，是更愿意离开身体与主同住。 9 所以，无论是住在身内，离开身外，我们立了志向，要得主的喜悦。 10 因为我们众人必要在基督台前显露出来，叫各人按着本身所行的，或善或恶受报。

劝人与　神和好的职分

11 我们既知道主是可畏的，所以劝人。但我们在　神面前是显明的，盼望在你们的良心里也是显明的。 12 我们不是向你们再举荐自己，乃是叫你们因我们有可夸之处，好对那凭外貌不凭内心夸口的人，有言可答。 13 我们若果颠狂，是为　神；若果谨守，是为你们。 14 原来基督的爱激励我们；因我们想，一人既替众人死，众人就都死了； 15 并且他替众人死，是叫那些活着的人不再为自己活，乃为替他们死而复活的主活。

16 所以，我们从今以后，不凭着外貌t认人了。虽然凭着外貌认过基督，如今却不再这样认他了。 17 若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，都变成新的了。 18 一切都是出于　神；他借着基督使我们与他和好，又将劝人与他和好的职分赐给我们。 19 这就是　神在基督里，叫世人与自己和好，不将他们的过犯归到他们身上，并且将这和好的道理托付了我们。 20 所以，我们作基督的使者，就好像　神借我们劝你们一般。我们替基督求你们与　神和好。 21 　神使那无罪t的，替我们成为罪，好叫我们在他里面成为　神的义。

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.