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2 Corinthians 5:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on ➔ our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. "
2 Corinthians 5:12
Verse in Context
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on ➔ our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were ➔ all dead:
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2 Corinthians 5:1
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
2 Corinthians 5:2
"For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:"
2 Corinthians 5:3
"If so be that being clothed we shall ➔ not be found naked."
2 Corinthians 5:4
"For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."
2 Corinthians 5:5
"Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit."
2 Corinthians 5:6
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:"
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