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

^{2 Ref} For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

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

^{4 Ref} For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

^{5 Ref} Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

^{6 Ref} Being therefore always of good courage, and 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 of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

^{9 Ref} Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

^{10 Ref} For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things `done' in the body, according to what he hath done, whether `it be' good or bad.