Paul Contrasts our present condition "in this tabernacle" - "our earthly house" - where we are "absent from the Lord" (v. 1, 6), with a future condition where we are clothed with "a building of God" - "clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life" - and "present with the Lord" (v. 1, 4, 8). As with the Book of Mormon passages earlier, the Resurrection brings to Paul's mind the judgement, for when we are brought before "the judgment seat of Christ" each man will receive "according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (v. 10). That coming judgment motivates Paul to labor that he might be "accepted of him" (v. 9).
And his labor is to bring souls to Christ, that they might be "reconciled to God" (v. 20) through the atonement. Men reconciled to God are made "the righteousness of God" in Christ (v. 21) and are renewed in Christ, a "new creature" for whom "old things are passed away; all things are become new" (v. 17).
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