2 Corinthians 5:1-5

Lexham English Bible

Absent from the Body and at Home with the Lord

5 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For indeed, in this house we groan, because we^[a] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven, ³ if indeed, even after we^[b] have taken it off,^[c] we will not be found naked. ⁴ For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened for this reason, that^[d] we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit.