2 Corinthians 4:10–5:10

¹⁰We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,^d so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.^{e 11}For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake,^f so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹²So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.^g

¹³It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”^bh Since we have that same spirit of^c faith,ⁱ we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead^j will also raise us with Jesus^k and present us with you to himself.^{l 15}All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving^m to overflow to the glory of God.

¹⁶Therefore we do not lose heart.ⁿ Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly^o we are being renewed^p day by day. ¹⁷For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.^{q 18}So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,^r since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Awaiting the New Body

5For we know that if the earthly^s tent^t we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. ²Meanwhile we groan,^u longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^{v 3}because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan^w and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,^x so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.^y

⁶Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷For we live by faith, not by sight.^{z 8}We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^{a 9}So we make it our goal to please him,^b whether we are at home in the body or away from it. ¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us^c for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.