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

¹⁶ Wherefore we faint not, but if our outward man is destroyed our inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory, ¹⁸ while we look not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are for a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.

¹ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ² For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven, ³ if indeed also having put it on we may not be found naked. ⁴ For being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put it off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit.

⁶ Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. ⁹ Wherefore also we strive, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the body for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.