1. For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens,
2. for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
3. if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
4. for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.