Paul now starts chapter 5 comparing the human body to an "earthly tent" and expresses the Christian hope of after death receiving "an eternal house in heaven... for which we long... so that mortality be swallowed up by life... so whilst we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord... but we know that one day we will all appear before the judgement seat of Christ... thus we try to persuade men concerning this... because Christ died for all so that people don't just live for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again... and if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone and all things have become new... for God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ... and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation... for which we are Christ's ambassadors... so be reconciled to God... because he made Jesus who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God!"
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