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The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

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- Kapitel 5 -

(Romans 8:18–27)
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We know that these bodies are only temporary dwelling places, like tents that do not last very long. But we know that when we die, God gives us a permanent place in which we will live, a body that lasts forever, a body that God has made.
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While we live in our physical bodies, we groan with longing for the bodies we will have when we will live with God,
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because when God clothes us in our new bodies, that will be our covering, like clothing.
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For we live in these bodies that one day will die, and we long for the day when we lay aside these bodies. Not that we are eager to die, but we are eager to be clothed with our eternal bodies, just like the saying that says, “All that dies, will be swallowed up by life.”
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God himself prepares our new bodies for us, and he guarantees that we will receive them by giving us his Spirit.
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So you should always be certain that as long as we live in our bodies on the earth, we are away from the Lord, who is in heaven.
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We live our lives by trusting in him, and not by trusting in what we can see.
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Because we have put our trust in him, we would much rather give up our present bodies so we could be at home with the Lord.
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Therefore we make it our goal to obey him, whether we are here or in heaven.
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For we will all stand before Messiah when he sits as the judge of all. He will judge what we did when we were in this life. Messiah will give us what we deserve, and he will judge what was good or bad.

Ambassadors for Christ

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Therefore we know what it is to honor the Lord, so we make sure to tell people what kind of God he is. God knows what kind of people we are, and I expect that you also understand whether we are doing good or evil.
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We are not trying to prove again that we are genuine servants of God. We only want you to know what kind of people we are, and to give you a reason to be proud of us. We do this, so that you can answer those who praise their own actions, but do not care about what they really are in their inner being.
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If people think we are crazy, well, we are serving God. But if we are in our right minds, it is to help you.
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Our love for Messiah drives us on. We are sure of this: Messiah died for all, therefore we all have died with him.
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Messiah died for all, so that those who live should not live for themselves, but should live for Messiah, who died for their sins; and he is the one whom God raised from the dead.
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Since we live no longer for ourselves, we judge no one according to the way the unbelievers judge. We once even viewed Messiah by these human standards. But as Messianics, now we judge no one like this.
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When anyone is joined with Messiah and trusts in him, he becomes a new person. Everything from the past is gone, See!, God makes everything in you new.
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All these gifts come from God. He made peace with us so that we are no longer enemies of God. Now we have peace with God through the cross of Messiah. Also, God has given us the responsibility of announcing that he is bringing people and himself together.
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That message brings God and people together and is how God made peace with the world by what Messiah did. God is not applying their sins to their account. Instead, Messiah has taken our sins away and has given us this message that makes peace and brings God and people together.
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So God has appointed us to represent Messiah. God pleads with you through us. So we plead with you on Messiah’s behalf: Through Messiah, let him make peace with you and bring you to himself.
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God made Messiah the offering for sin, the one who never sinned, so that when we trust in Messiah and believe in him, God makes us right with himself.
(Romans 8:18–27)
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For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
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if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
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For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
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Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
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for we walk by faith, not by sight.
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We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
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Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
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For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Ambassadors for Christ

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Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
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For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
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For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
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For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
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He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
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Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold,(a) all things have become new.
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But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
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namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Fußnoten

(a)5:17 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.