2 Corinthians 5:1–10

¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven; ³if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked. ⁴For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now he that has wrought us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit. ⁶Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord, ⁷(for we walk by faith, not by sight;) ⁸we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. ⁹Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him. ¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.