³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(A) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^(B)

² Dear friends,^(A) now we are children of God,^(B) and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,^[a](C) we shall be like him,^(D) for we shall see him as he is.^(E)