2 Corinthians 5:1-11 ▼

1 For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

2 For verily, in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from Heaven;

3 if, indeed, being also clothed, we will not be found naked.

4 For, indeed, we who are in the tabernacle groan, being weighed down; not that we wish to be unclothed, but be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit.

6 Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord

7 (for we walk by faith and not by sight);

8 we are of good courage, I say , and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

9 Wherefore, we also make it our aim—whether being at home or being from home—to be well-pleasing to Him.

10 For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

11 Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.