The Daily Audio Bible

¹³ And because we have the same spirit of faith, as it is written, “I believed, and therefore I have spoken”, we also believe, and therefore speak,

¹⁴ knowing that He Who has raised up the Lord Jesus, shall also raise us up by Jesus, and shall set us with you.

¹⁵ For all things are for your sakes, so that that superabundant grace by the thanksgiving of many, may increase to the praise of God.

¹⁶ Therefore, we do not faint. But though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

¹⁸ While we look, not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle is destroyed, we have a building given by God; that is, a house, made not with hands, but eternal, in the heavens.

² For therefore we sigh, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from Heaven.

³ Because if we are clothed, we shall not be found naked.

⁴ For indeed, we who are in this tabernacle sigh and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed; so that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

⁵ And He Who has created us for this thing, is God; Who also has given us the earnest portion of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore we are always bold; although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

⁷ For we walk by faith, and not by sight.

⁸ Nevertheless, we are bold, and are well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

⁹ Therefore also, we desire eagerly, whether present or absent, to be acceptable to him.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that everyone may receive the things done through the body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.