^{1 Ref} For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

^{2 Ref} For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

^{3 Ref} If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

^{4 Ref} For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

^{5 Ref} Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

^{6 Ref} Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

^{7 Ref} (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

^{8 Ref} We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.