^{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.

^{8 Ref} We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.