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1 For I know, that if my body, which is but a tent for my sojourning upon earth, were dissolved, I have what is not fram'd by human art, but by the divine architect, a mansion eternal in the heavens. 2 while I am thus incas'd, I groan with desire to have that celestial vehicle superinduc'd: 3 tho' should I be divested of this body, I shall not even then be destitute of one. 4 we that are in this tabernacle do groan under the burden of it: not that we desire to be divested of it, but we desire to have our celestial body, that this mortal state may vanish into immortality. 5 now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it. 6 therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord, 7 (for I regulate my conduct by my future expectations, not by visible enjoyments: 2 Corinthians 5:1-7, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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