1. For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. For indeed, in this house we groan, because we desire to put on our dwelling from heaven,
3. if indeed, even after we have taken it off, we will not be found naked.
4. For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened for this reason, that we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5. Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.
6. Therefore, although we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
7. for we live by faith, not by sight—
8. so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9. Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him.
10. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the things through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11. Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we are attempting to persuade people, but we are revealed to God, and I hope to be revealed in your consciences.