2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

¹⁰We always carry the death of Jesus^h in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. ¹¹For we who live are always being given over to deathⁱ for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh. ¹²So then, death is at work in us, but life in you. ¹³And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,^Aj we also believe, and therefore speak. ¹⁴For we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus^k and present us with you. ¹⁵Indeed, everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving^l to increase to the glory of God.

¹⁶Therefore we do not give up.^m Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner personⁿ is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our momentary light affliction^o is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.^{p 18}So we do not focus on what is seen,^q but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

OUR FUTURE AFTER DEATH

5For we know that if our earthly tent we live in^r is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens,^s not made with hands.^{t 2}Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring^u to put on our heavenly dwelling, ³since, when we are clothed,^B we will not be found naked.^{v 4}Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality^w may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

⁶So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷For we walk by faith,^x not by sight.^{y 8}In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^{z 9}Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing^aa to him. ¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat^ab of Christ,^ac so that each may be repaid^ad for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.