2 Corinthians 5:1-11 ▼

1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.

2 For therfore sygh we, desiryng to be clothed with our house whiche is from heauen:

3 So yet, yf that we be founde clothed, and not naked.

4 For we that are in this tabernacle sigh, & being burdened because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpo, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of lyfe.

5 He that hath ordeyned vs for this thyng is God, which hath also geuen vnto vs the earnest of the spirite.

6 Therfore we are alway of good cheare, and knowe, that as long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lorde.

7 (For we walke by fayth, not after outwarde appearaunce.)

8 Neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, and had rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lorde.

9 Wherfore, whether we be at home, or from home, we endeuour our selues to be accepted vnto hym.

10 For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christe, that euery man may receaue the workes of his bodie according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

11 Seing then that we knowe the feare of the Lorde, we fare fayre with men: For we are knowen well enough vnto God. I trust also that we are knowen in your consciences.