2 Corinthians 5:1-8
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1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
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3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
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4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
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5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
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6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
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8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.