2 Corinthians 5:1-10 - Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven: 3 if indeed having been invested, we shall not be found unclothed. 4 For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. 5 But the one having wrought us out unto this same thing is God, the one having given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord; 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight); 8 but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. 9 Therefore we are truly ambitious, whether being present or absent, to be well pleasing unto him. 10 For it behooves us all to appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive according to those things which he has done through the body, whether good or evil.