^{1 Ref} For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

^{2 Ref} For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

^{3 Ref} So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

^{4 Ref} For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

^{5 Ref} Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

^{6 Ref} So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

^{7 Ref} (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)