2 Corinthians 5:1–10

Assurance of the Resurrection

5For we know that if ^aour earthly ¹house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house ^bnot made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ²For in this ^cwe groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our ²habitation which is from heaven, ³if indeed, ^dhaving been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, ^ebut further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also ^fhas given us the Spirit as ³a guarantee.

⁶So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. ⁷For ^gwe walk by faith, not by sight. ⁸We are confident, yes, ^hwell pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

The Judgment Seat of Christ

⁹Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ⁱFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^jthat each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.