From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 5   
      
   2 Corinthians Chapter 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 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our   
   house which is from heaven:   
      
   3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.   
      
   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.   
      
   5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also   
   hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.   
      
   6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home   
   in the body, we are absent from the Lord:   
      
   7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)   
      
   8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the   
   body, and to be present with the Lord.   
      
   9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be   
   accepted of him.   
      
   10 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.   
      
   11 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.   
      
   12 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.   
      
   13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be   
   sober, it is for your cause.   
      
   14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that   
   if one died for all, then were all dead:   
      
   15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth   
   live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.   
      
   16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we   
   have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.   
      
   17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things   
   are passed away; behold, all things are become new.   
      
   18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus   
   Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;   
      
   19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,   
   not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the   
   word of reconciliation.   
      
   20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you   
   by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.   
      
   21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might   
   be made the righteousness of God in him.   
      
   2 Corinthians Chapter 6   
      
   1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye   
   receive not the grace of God in vain.   
      
   2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of   
   salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;   
   behold, now is the day of salvation.)   
      
   3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:   
      
   4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much   
   patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,   
      
   5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in   
   fastings;   
      
   6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy   
   Ghost, by love unfeigned,   
      
   7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of   
   righteousness on the right hand and on the left,   
      
   8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers,   
   and yet true;   
      
   9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as   
   chastened, and not killed;   
      
   10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as   
   having nothing, and yet possessing all things.   
      
   11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.   
      
   12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.   
      
   13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be   
   ye also enlarged.   
      
   14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what   
   fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion   
   hath light with darkness?   
      
   15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that   
   believeth with an infidel?   
      
   16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the   
   temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and   
   walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.   
      
   17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the   
   Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,   
      
   18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters,   
   saith the Lord Almighty.   
      
   2 Corinthians Chapter 7   
      
   1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse   
   ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting   
   holiness in the fear of God.   
      
   2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have   
   defrauded no man.   
      
   3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are   
   in our hearts to die and live with you.   
      
   4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of   
   you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.   
      
   5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we   
   were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.   
      
   6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted   
   us by the coming of Titus;   
      
   7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was   
   comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning,   
   your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.   
      
   8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I   
   did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry,   
   though it were but for a season.   
      
   9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to   
   repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might   
   receive damage by us in nothing.   
      
   10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented   
   of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.   
      
   11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort,   
   what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves,   
   yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea,   
   what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves   
   to be clear in this matter.   
      
   12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that   
   had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our   
   care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.   
      
   13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the   
      
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