5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

5:2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

5:3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

5:4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

5:5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

5:6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

5:9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.