8we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
10for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;
11having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;
12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have [something] in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;
13for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind -- [it is] to you,
14for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
