Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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.