Our Heavenly Dwelling

5 For we know that if ^(A)the tent that is ^(B)our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, ^(C)a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this tent ^(D)we groan, longing to ^(E)put on our heavenly dwelling, ³ if indeed by putting it on^[a] we may not be found naked. ⁴ For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal ^(F)may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, ^(G)who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

⁶ So we are always of good courage. We know that ^(H)while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, ⁷ for ^(I)we walk by faith, not ^(J)by sight. ⁸ Yes, we are of good courage, and we ^(K)would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. ⁹ So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to ^(L)please him. ¹⁰ For ^(M)we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^(N)so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

^27 (A)Do not work for the food that perishes, but for ^(B)the food that endures to eternal life, which ^(C)the Son of Man will give to you. For on ^(D)him God the Father has ^(E)set his seal.” ²⁸ Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(F)the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(G)that you believe in him whom ^(H)he has sent.” ³⁰ So they said to him, ^(I)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31 (J)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(K)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³² Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is ^(L)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ They said to him, ^(M)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ Jesus said to them, ^(N)“I am the bread of life; ^(O)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶ But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ^37 (P)All that ^(Q)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(R)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸ For ^(S)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(T)my own will but ^(U)the will of him ^(V)who sent me. ³⁹ And ^(W)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(X)that I should lose nothing of ^(Y)all that he has given me, but ^(Z)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(AA)looks on the Son and ^(AB)believes in him ^(AC)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”