For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven;

For we know that - -if, our earthly tent-dwelling, should be taken down, we have, a building of God, a dwelling not made by hand, age-abiding in the heavens.

Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him.

because when we are covered by it, we will not be found naked [i.e., without a suitable dwelling for our body].

Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord