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

¹⁶ So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. ¹⁷ For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, ¹⁸ because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

¹ For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal. ² This makes me sigh with longing to put on my heavenly dwelling, ³ for if I do, I shall never find myself disembodied. ⁴ For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life. ⁵ It is God himself who has prepared me for this change, and he has given me the Spirit as his guaranty.

⁶ So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord ⁷ (for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)??8 yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord. ⁹ So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.