2 Corinthians 5:1-10 - Absent From The Body And At Home With The Lord

¹ For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal. ² For in this one I am sighing, because I long to put on, like a robe, my heavenly body, my future home, ³ and if I do put it on, I shall not find myself to be disembodied. ⁴ For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens, because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life. ⁵ Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss.

⁶ So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord ⁷ (for here I live by what I believe and not by what I see), ⁸ and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-bar of Christ, that each may get his pay for what he has done, whether it be good or bad.