³⁵ Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.

³³ And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken.

¹² And any vessel of earth which has been touched by the unclean man will have to be broken and any vessel of wood washed.

¹ 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 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

³ So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

⁴ 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 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 So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,

⁷ (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)