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

¹⁶ Therefore we never faint; for though our outward man decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our momentary light affliction worketh for us a transcendently far more exceeding eternal weight of glory; ¹⁸ whilst we direct our aim not to the things which are seen, but to the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

¹ FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle should 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, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven; ³ that so invested, we may not be found naked. ⁴ For we which are in this tabernacle, groan, being burdened; wherein we desire not to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life. ⁵ But he that hath wrought us for this very thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the spirit.

⁶ Therefore we have always confidence, and know that whilst we are indwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord: ⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight.) ⁸ We are confident indeed, and with pleasure expect to go out from the body, and to dwell within with the Lord: ⁹ wherefore also our ambition is, that whether dwelling in the body, or out of the body, we may be acceptable to him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he hath done, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.