1 ¶ Porque sabemos, que si la casa terrestre de nuestra habitación se deshiciere, tenemos de Dios un edificio, una casa, no hecha de manos, eterna, en los cielos.

For we know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Y por esto también gemimos, deseando ser sobrevestidos de aquella nuestra habitación que es del cielo;

Here indeed, in this, we sigh and groan inwardly, because we yearn to be clothed over with our heavenly dwelling,

3 s i también fuéremos hallados vestidos, y no desnudos.

So that by putting it on we may not be found naked (without a body).

4 P orque asimismo los que estamos en este tabernáculo, gemimos cargados; porque no queremos ser desnudados; antes sobrevestidos, consumiendo la vida a lo que es mortal.

For while we are still in this tent, we groan under the burden and sigh deeply (weighed down, depressed, oppressed)—not that we want to put off the body (the clothing of the spirit), but rather that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life '> after the resurrection].

5 M as el que nos hizo para esto mismo, es Dios; el cual así mismo nos ha dado la prenda del Espíritu.

Now He Who has fashioned us for this very thing is God, Who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

6 A sí que vivimos confiados siempre, y sabiendo, que entre tanto que estamos en casa en el cuerpo, peregrinamos del Señor;

So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord.

7 ( porque por fe andamos, no por vista);

For we walk by faith '> regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.

8 m as confiamos, y queremos más peregrinar del cuerpo, y ser presentes al Señor.

we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased rather to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord.

9 P or tanto procuramos también, ausentes, o presentes, agradarle;

Therefore, whether we are at home or away from home, we are constantly ambitious and strive earnestly to be pleasing to Him.

10 p orque es necesario que todos nosotros comparezcamos delante del tribunal del Cristo, para que cada uno reciba según lo que hubiere hecho por medio del cuerpo, bueno o malo.

For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil '> what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].

11 A sí que estando ciertos de aquel terror del Señor, persuadimos a los hombres, mas a Dios somos manifiestos; y espero que también en vuestras conciencias seamos manifiestos.

Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment).

12 ¶ No nos encomendamos pues otra vez a vosotros, sino os damos ocasión de gloriaros por nosotros, para que tengáis qué responder contra los que se glorían en las apariencias, y no en el corazón.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but we are providing you with an occasion and incentive to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who pride themselves on surface appearances '> on the virtues they only appear to have], although their heart is devoid of them.

13 P orque si estamos locos, es para Dios; y si somos cuerdos, es para vosotros.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God and concerns Him; if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit,

14 P orque la caridad del Cristo nos constriñe, porque juzgamos así: Que si uno fue muerto por todos, luego todos son muertos;

For the love of Christ controls and urges and impels us, because we are of the opinion and conviction that One died for all, then all died;

15 a sí mismo el Cristo murió por todos, para que también los que viven, ya no vivan para sí, sino para aquel que murió y resucitó por ellos.

And He died for all, so that all those who live might live no longer to and for themselves, but to and for Him Who died and was raised again for their sake.

16 ¶ De manera que nosotros de aquí en adelante a nadie conocemos según la carne; y si aun a Cristo conocimos según la carne, ahora sin embargo ya no le conocemos.

Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a human point of view. even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now we know Him no longer.

17 D e manera que si alguno está en Cristo, son nueva creación; las cosas viejas pasaron; he aquí todo es hecho nuevo.

Therefore if any person is in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

18 Y todo esto por Dios, el cual nos reconcilió a sí por Jesús el Cristo; y (nos) dio el ministerio de la reconciliación.

But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.

19 P orque ciertamente Dios estaba en Cristo reconciliando el mundo a sí mismo, no imputándoles sus pecados, y puso en nosotros la palabra de la Reconciliación.

It was God in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against their trespasses, and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

20 A sí que, somos embajadores de Cristo, como si Dios rogara por medio nuestro; os rogamos en Nombre de Cristo: Reconciliaos a Dios.

So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor and be reconciled to God.

21 A l que no conoció pecado, lo hizo pecado por nosotros, para que nosotros fuéramos hechos justicia de Dios en él.

For our sake He made Christ to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become '> endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God.