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;)
8. we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.
9. Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.
10. For 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.
11. Knowing 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.
13. For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or are sober, it is for you.
14. For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
15. and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.