2 Corinthians 5

¹For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

²For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

³So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

⁴For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

⁵Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

⁶So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

⁷(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

⁸We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.

⁹For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

¹⁰For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

¹¹Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.

¹²We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.