2 Corinthians 5:1 For instance, we know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be replaced by resurrection bodies in heaven—God-ma...

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The Message - For instance, we know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be replaced by resurrection bodies in heaven—God-made, not handmade—and we’ll never have to relocate our “tents” again. Sometimes we can hardly wait to move—and so we cry out in frustration. Compared to what’s coming, living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we’re tired of it! We’ve been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies! The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what’s ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we’ll never settle for less.
新标点和合本 - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐棚若拆毁了，必得　神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 因为我们知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，我们将有上帝所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 因为我们知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，我们将有　神所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
当代译本 - 我们知道，身体是我们在地上住的帐篷，如果毁坏了，我们就从上帝那里得到一个住处，不是人手造的，而是天上永恒的“房屋”。
圣经新译本 - 我们知道，如果我们在地上的帐棚拆毁了，我们必得着从　神而来的居所。那不是人手所造的，而是天上永存的房屋。
中文标准译本 - 我们知道，当我们属地的家——这帐篷被拆毁的时候，我们就有从神而来的殿宇，不是人手所造的，而是在天上的永恒的家。
现代标点和合本 - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，必得神所造，不是人手所造、在天上永存的房屋。
和合本（拼音版） - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐棚若拆毁了，必得上帝所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
New International Version - For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
New International Reader's Version - We know that the earthly tent we live in will be destroyed. But we have a building made by God. It is a house in heaven that lasts forever. Human hands did not build it.
English Standard Version - For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
New Living Translation - For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
Christian Standard Bible - For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.
New American Standard Bible - For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
New King James Version - For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Amplified Bible - For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
American Standard Version - 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.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
World English Bible - For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
新標點和合本 - 我們原知道，我們這地上的帳棚若拆毀了，必得神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 因為我們知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，我們將有上帝所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 因為我們知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，我們將有　神所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
當代譯本 - 我們知道，身體是我們在地上住的帳篷，如果毀壞了，我們就從上帝那裡得到一個住處，不是人手造的，而是天上永恆的「房屋」。
聖經新譯本 - 我們知道，如果我們在地上的帳棚拆毀了，我們必得著從　神而來的居所。那不是人手所造的，而是天上永存的房屋。
呂振中譯本 - 我們知道我們這地上的帳篷式房屋若拆毁了，我們就可以從上帝得到建築物，非人手造的、永世的在天上的房屋。
中文標準譯本 - 我們知道，當我們屬地的家——這帳篷被拆毀的時候，我們就有從神而來的殿宇，不是人手所造的，而是在天上的永恆的家。
現代標點和合本 - 我們原知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，必得神所造，不是人手所造、在天上永存的房屋。
文理和合譯本 - 我知在地之幕若壞、則有由於上帝之室、非手所造、悠久於天、
文理委辦譯本 - 我知此身、猶土室帷幕、雖壞、然有上帝經營、非手所作之室、悠久於天、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我知此我屬地之幕屋既壞、則有天主所造、非人手所造之屋、永遠在天、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 吾人現世暫寓之逆旅、固有土崩瓦解之時。然吾人在天有一永久之安宅焉。此宅也、非人手所造、乃天主之所賜也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - De hecho, sabemos que, si esta tienda de campaña en que vivimos se deshace, tenemos de Dios un edificio, una casa eterna en el cielo, no construida por manos humanas.
현대인의 성경 - 우리는 땅에 있는 우리 육체의 집이 무너지면 사람의 손으로 지은 것이 아닌 하나님이 지으신 하늘의 영원한 집을 소유하게 될 것을 압니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждет вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Богом, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Всевышним, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Аллахом, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Всевышним, а не руками людей.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Nous le savons, en effet : si notre demeure, cette tente que nous habitons sur la terre, vient à être détruite, nous avons au ciel une maison que Dieu nous a préparée, une habitation éternelle qui n’est pas l’œuvre de l’homme.
リビングバイブル - 私たちがいま住んでいる地上の家が取りこわされても〔すなわち、私たちが死んでこの肉体を離れても〕、天には新しい体、永遠に保証された家があります。それは、人の手ではなく、神の手でつくられた家です。
Nestle Aland 28 - Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
Nova Versão Internacional - Sabemos que, se for destruída a temporária habitação terrena em que vivemos, temos da parte de Deus um edifício, uma casa eterna nos céus, não construída por mãos humanas.
Hoffnung für alle - Das wissen wir: Unser irdischer Leib ist vergänglich; er gleicht einem Zelt, das eines Tages abgebrochen wird. Dann erhalten wir einen neuen Leib, eine Behausung, die nicht von Menschen errichtet ist. Gott hält sie im Himmel für uns bereit, und sie wird ewig bleiben.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúng ta biết nhà bằng đất tạm thời của chúng ta đổ nát, chúng ta vẫn còn nhà đời đời trên trời, do Đức Chúa Trời sáng tạo, không phải do loài người.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บัดนี้เรารู้อยู่ว่าหากเต็นท์ฝ่ายโลกนี้ที่เราอาศัยอยู่ถูกทำลายลง เราก็มีบ้านจากพระเจ้า คือบ้านนิรันดร์ในสวรรค์ซึ่งไม่ได้สร้างขึ้นด้วยมือมนุษย์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะเราทราบว่า หากกระโจมซึ่งเป็นร่างดินของเราถูกทำลายไป เราก็จะได้เรือนจากพระเจ้า ซึ่งเป็นบ้านอันเป็นนิรันดร์ในสวรรค์ ที่ไม่ได้สร้างขึ้นด้วยมือมนุษย์

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Psalms 56:9 - If my enemies run away, turn tail when I yell at them, Then I’ll know that God is on my side.
1 Corinthians 3:9 - Or, to put it another way, you are God’s house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive—but just barely.
Colossians 2:11 - Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it’s an initiation ritual you’re after, you’ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.
2 Peter 3:11 - Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival. The galaxies will burn up and the elements melt down that day—but we’ll hardly notice. We’ll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness. * * *
Hebrews 9:11 - But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
2 Corinthians 4:7 - If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!
1 John 3:2 - But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own.

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The Message - For instance, we know that when these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be replaced by resurrection bodies in heaven—God-made, not handmade—and we’ll never have to relocate our “tents” again. Sometimes we can hardly wait to move—and so we cry out in frustration. Compared to what’s coming, living conditions around here seem like a stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we’re tired of it! We’ve been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies! The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what’s ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we’ll never settle for less.
新标点和合本 - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐棚若拆毁了，必得　神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 因为我们知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，我们将有上帝所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 因为我们知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，我们将有　神所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
当代译本 - 我们知道，身体是我们在地上住的帐篷，如果毁坏了，我们就从上帝那里得到一个住处，不是人手造的，而是天上永恒的“房屋”。
圣经新译本 - 我们知道，如果我们在地上的帐棚拆毁了，我们必得着从　神而来的居所。那不是人手所造的，而是天上永存的房屋。
中文标准译本 - 我们知道，当我们属地的家——这帐篷被拆毁的时候，我们就有从神而来的殿宇，不是人手所造的，而是在天上的永恒的家。
现代标点和合本 - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐篷若拆毁了，必得神所造，不是人手所造、在天上永存的房屋。
和合本（拼音版） - 我们原知道，我们这地上的帐棚若拆毁了，必得上帝所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
New International Version - For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
New International Reader's Version - We know that the earthly tent we live in will be destroyed. But we have a building made by God. It is a house in heaven that lasts forever. Human hands did not build it.
English Standard Version - For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
New Living Translation - For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
Christian Standard Bible - For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.
New American Standard Bible - For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
New King James Version - For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Amplified Bible - For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
American Standard Version - 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.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
World English Bible - For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
新標點和合本 - 我們原知道，我們這地上的帳棚若拆毀了，必得神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 因為我們知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，我們將有上帝所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 因為我們知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，我們將有　神所造的居所，不是人手所造的，而是在天上永存的。
當代譯本 - 我們知道，身體是我們在地上住的帳篷，如果毀壞了，我們就從上帝那裡得到一個住處，不是人手造的，而是天上永恆的「房屋」。
聖經新譯本 - 我們知道，如果我們在地上的帳棚拆毀了，我們必得著從　神而來的居所。那不是人手所造的，而是天上永存的房屋。
呂振中譯本 - 我們知道我們這地上的帳篷式房屋若拆毁了，我們就可以從上帝得到建築物，非人手造的、永世的在天上的房屋。
中文標準譯本 - 我們知道，當我們屬地的家——這帳篷被拆毀的時候，我們就有從神而來的殿宇，不是人手所造的，而是在天上的永恆的家。
現代標點和合本 - 我們原知道，我們這地上的帳篷若拆毀了，必得神所造，不是人手所造、在天上永存的房屋。
文理和合譯本 - 我知在地之幕若壞、則有由於上帝之室、非手所造、悠久於天、
文理委辦譯本 - 我知此身、猶土室帷幕、雖壞、然有上帝經營、非手所作之室、悠久於天、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我知此我屬地之幕屋既壞、則有天主所造、非人手所造之屋、永遠在天、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 吾人現世暫寓之逆旅、固有土崩瓦解之時。然吾人在天有一永久之安宅焉。此宅也、非人手所造、乃天主之所賜也。
Nueva Versión Internacional - De hecho, sabemos que, si esta tienda de campaña en que vivimos se deshace, tenemos de Dios un edificio, una casa eterna en el cielo, no construida por manos humanas.
현대인의 성경 - 우리는 땅에 있는 우리 육체의 집이 무너지면 사람의 손으로 지은 것이 아닌 하나님이 지으신 하늘의 영원한 집을 소유하게 될 것을 압니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждет вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Богом, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Всевышним, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Аллахом, а не руками людей.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Мы знаем, что когда наша земная палатка – наше тело – будет уничтожена, тогда на небе нас ждёт вечный дом – духовное тело, созданное Всевышним, а не руками людей.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Nous le savons, en effet : si notre demeure, cette tente que nous habitons sur la terre, vient à être détruite, nous avons au ciel une maison que Dieu nous a préparée, une habitation éternelle qui n’est pas l’œuvre de l’homme.
リビングバイブル - 私たちがいま住んでいる地上の家が取りこわされても〔すなわち、私たちが死んでこの肉体を離れても〕、天には新しい体、永遠に保証された家があります。それは、人の手ではなく、神の手でつくられた家です。
Nestle Aland 28 - Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
Nova Versão Internacional - Sabemos que, se for destruída a temporária habitação terrena em que vivemos, temos da parte de Deus um edifício, uma casa eterna nos céus, não construída por mãos humanas.
Hoffnung für alle - Das wissen wir: Unser irdischer Leib ist vergänglich; er gleicht einem Zelt, das eines Tages abgebrochen wird. Dann erhalten wir einen neuen Leib, eine Behausung, die nicht von Menschen errichtet ist. Gott hält sie im Himmel für uns bereit, und sie wird ewig bleiben.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúng ta biết nhà bằng đất tạm thời của chúng ta đổ nát, chúng ta vẫn còn nhà đời đời trên trời, do Đức Chúa Trời sáng tạo, không phải do loài người.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - บัดนี้เรารู้อยู่ว่าหากเต็นท์ฝ่ายโลกนี้ที่เราอาศัยอยู่ถูกทำลายลง เราก็มีบ้านจากพระเจ้า คือบ้านนิรันดร์ในสวรรค์ซึ่งไม่ได้สร้างขึ้นด้วยมือมนุษย์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะเราทราบว่า หากกระโจมซึ่งเป็นร่างดินของเราถูกทำลายไป เราก็จะได้เรือนจากพระเจ้า ซึ่งเป็นบ้านอันเป็นนิรันดร์ในสวรรค์ ที่ไม่ได้สร้างขึ้นด้วยมือมนุษย์

Psalms 56:9 - If my enemies run away, turn tail when I yell at them, Then I’ll know that God is on my side.
1 Corinthians 3:9 - Or, to put it another way, you are God’s house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive—but just barely.
Colossians 2:11 - Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it’s an initiation ritual you’re after, you’ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.
2 Peter 3:11 - Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival. The galaxies will burn up and the elements melt down that day—but we’ll hardly notice. We’ll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness. * * *
Hebrews 9:11 - But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
2 Corinthians 4:7 - If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!
1 John 3:2 - But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own.