1For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
2for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
3if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
4for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.
5And He who did work us to this self-same thing [is] God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;
6having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --