1For 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.
2For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
3if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;