1. For 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.
2. For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven;
3. if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.
4. For 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.
5. Now he that has wrought us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.
6. Therefore 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;)