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

¹⁶ For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day. ¹⁷ For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, ¹⁸ while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

¹ For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered, ³ I shall not be found naked. ⁴ For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life. ⁵ And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

⁶ Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord, ⁷ for I am walking by faith, not by sight. ⁸ So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord. ¹⁰ For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.