For we know that if the earthly house, this cabin, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
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.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation
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!
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.