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

^{2 Ref} For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

^{3 Ref} if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.

^{4 Ref} For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

^{5 Ref} Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

^{6 Ref} Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

^{7 Ref} for we walk by faith, not by sight.