2 Corinthians 5

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

²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

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

⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

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

⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

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

¹²[For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.