Book of Common Prayer
And Our Affliction Is Producing an Eternal Weight of Glory For Us In Heaven
16 Therefore we do not lose-heart. But even though our outer person is being destroyed[a], nevertheless our inner person is being renewed day in and day out. 17 For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory extremely beyond measure, 18 while we are not looking-for[b] the things being seen, but the things not being seen. For the things being seen are temporary, but the things not being seen are eternal. 5 1 For we know that if our earthly house— our tent[c]— is torn-down[d], we have a building[e] from God, a house not-made-by-human-hands, eternal, in the heavens.
We Do Indeed Groan In This Body And Would Prefer To Get Home To The Lord
2 For indeed in this tent we are groaning, yearning to put-on-over[f] ourselves our dwelling from heaven— 3 inasmuch[g] as we, having taken-off [h] this tent, shall not be found naked[i]. 4 For indeed we, the ones being in the tent[j], are groaning, being burdened, because we do not want to take-off [k] our earthly tent, but to put on our heavenly dwelling over it, in order that the mortal may be swallowed-up by the life. 5 And the One having made us for this very thing is God, the One having given us His pledge: the Spirit. 6 So while always being confident[l], and knowing that while being-at-home in the body we are away-from-home, from the Lord 7 (for we walk by faith, not by appearance[m])— 8 yet we are confident[n] and prefer rather to get-away-from-home, out of the body, and to get-at-home with the Lord.
Therefore We Are Ambitious To Please Him By Persuading People
9 Therefore[o] we indeed are ambitious[p] to be pleasing to Him— whether being at-home or being away-from-home. 10 For we all must appear[q] before the judgment-seat of Christ in order that each one might receive-back[r] the things done in[s] the body, in-accordance-with the things which he practiced, whether good or bad.
Sadducees Question Jesus About The Resurrection of a Wife With Seven Husbands
18 And Sadducees come to Him, who say that there is not a resurrection. And they were questioning Him, saying 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote to us [in Deut 25:5] that if a brother of someone dies and leaves-behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife, and raise-up-from her a seed[a] for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and dying, did not leave a seed. 21 And the second took her, and died, not having left-behind a seed. And the third similarly. 22 And the seven did not leave a seed. Last of all, the woman also died. 23 In the resurrection when they rise up, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven had her as wife”. 24 Jesus said to them, “Are you not mistaken[b] because of this— not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise-up from the dead, they neither marry nor are they given-in-marriage, but they are like angels[c] in the heavens. 26 And concerning the dead, that they are raised, did you not read in the book of Moses at the [place about the burning] bush, how God spoke to him, saying [in Ex 3:15] ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not God of dead ones, but of living ones. You are greatly mistaken”.
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