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For 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.
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For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
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if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
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For 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.
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Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
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Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
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for we walk by faith, not by sight.
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We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.