2 Corinthians 4:16-2 Corinthians 5:10 - Living By Faith

¹⁶ For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day. ¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory; ¹⁸ While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven. ² For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven: ³ So that our spirits may not be unclothed. ⁴ For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life. ⁵ Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

⁶ So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord, ⁷ (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,) ⁸ We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord. ⁹ For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him. ¹⁰ For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.