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    "chapter": 5
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-5:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.1",
        "text": "For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-5:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.2",
        "text": "For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-5:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.3",
        "text": "if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-5:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.4",
        "text": "For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-5:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.5",
        "text": "Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-5:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.6",
        "text": "Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-5:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.7",
        "text": "(for we walk by faith, not by sight);"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-5:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.8",
        "text": "we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-5:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.9",
        "text": "Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-5:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.10",
        "text": "For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-5:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.11",
        "text": "Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-5:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.12",
        "text": "We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-5:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.13",
        "text": "For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-5:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.14",
        "text": "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-5:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.15",
        "text": "and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-5:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.16",
        "text": "Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-5:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.17",
        "text": "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2CO-5:18",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.18",
        "text": "But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "2CO-5:19",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.19",
        "text": "to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "2CO-5:20",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.20",
        "text": "We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "2CO-5:21",
        "verseRef": "2CO.5.21",
        "text": "Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him."
      }
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