For we know that if our house on earth—this of the body—is dissolved, yet we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

For on this also we groan and long to put on our house that is from heaven:

if indeed when we have put it on we will not be found naked.

For while we are now in this house we groan from its weight, and we do not desire to strip it off, but to put on over it, so that its mortality may be swallowed up in life.

And the one who prepares us for this is Elohim, he who has given us the earnest of his Ruach.

Therefore we know and are persuaded that as long as we dwell in the body we are away from our Master;

for we walk by faith and not by sight.

Therefore we are confident and desire to be away from the body and to be with our Master.

And we strive that whether we are away or whether we are at home, we may be pleasing to him.

For we are all ready to stand before the judgment seat of the Mashiyach, that each one may be repaid in his body for what was done by him, whether good or whether evil.

Therefore because we know the fear of our Master, we persuade men; but to Elohim we are revealed; and I hope also that we are revealed to your minds.

We are not again praising ourselves to you, but we give you occasion to boast in us toward those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

For if we are out of our minds, it is for Elohim; and if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

For the love of the Mashiyach constrains us to reason this: that one died for every person; therefore every person has died.

And he died for every person, so that those who live should not live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose.

And from now on we know no person after the body; and if we have known the Mashiyach after the body, yet from now we know him no more.

Therefore everyone who is in the Mashiyach is a new creation; the old things have passed away.

And everything has become new from Elohim, who reconciled us to himself in the Mashiyach and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

For Elohim was in the Mashiyach, who reconciled the world with his majesty, and did not reckon to them their sins; and he placed in us the word of reconciliation.

We are therefore ambassadors for the Mashiyach, and it is as if Elohim is beseeching you by us. On behalf of the Mashiyach, therefore, we beseech you, be reconciled to Elohim.

For he who did not know sin, on your account he made him sin, that we might become in him the righteousness of Elohim.