2 Corinthians 5:1-7 ▼

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);