Assurance of the Resurrection

5 For we know that if ^(A)our earthly ^[a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house ^(B)not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

² For in this ^(A)we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our ^[a]habitation which is from heaven,

³ if indeed, ^(A)having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.

⁴ For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, ^(A)but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

⁵ Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also ^(A)has given us the Spirit as ^[a]a guarantee.

⁶ So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

⁷ For ^(A)we walk by faith, not by sight.

⁸ We are confident, yes, ^(A)well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.