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Therefore We Are Ambitious To Please Him By Persuading People

Therefore[a] we indeed are ambitious[b] to be pleasing to Him— whether being at-home or being away-from-home. 10 For we all must appear[c] before the judgment-seat of Christ in order that each one might receive-back[d] the things done in[e] the body, in-accordance-with the things which he practiced, whether good or bad. 11 Therefore knowing the fear[f] of the Lord, we are persuading[g] people.

Now Our Heart Has Been Made Known To God, And I Hope To You. Boast In Us

Now[h] we have been made known to God. And I hope that we also have been made known in your consciences.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:9 We do not lose heart, looking to the next life, 4:16-5:8. Now positively, we are ambitious, looking to what remains of earthly life.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:9 Or, make it our aim.
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or be made-known (as in v 11).
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or, get, obtain, receive-in-full.
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Or, during-the-time-of, by-means-of.
  6. 2 Corinthians 5:11 That is, reverence for the Lord and the desire to please Him that this fact (v 10) elicits in us.
  7. 2 Corinthians 5:11 That is, in accordance with what God commanded us to do.
  8. 2 Corinthians 5:11 Or, But. Others begin this point with v 12.

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