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

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, which is but as a tent, were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² And therefore whilst we are in this tabernacle we groan, being very desirous to be covered with our house which is from heaven: since though unclothed of this body, ³ yet we shall not be found naked. ⁴ For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened; wherefore we desire, not to be wholly unclothed, but to put on immortality, that the mortal part may be swallowed up in life. ⁵ Now He, that hath wrought us hereunto, is God; who hath also given us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we dwell in the body, we are absent from the Lord, ⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say, ⁸ and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord. ⁹ Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that every one may receive for the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it were good or bad.