For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Therefore, we are always of good cheer, and know well that as long as we are at home in the body we are absent from God.

And in their prayers to God for you, long after you, for the abundant grace of God given unto you.

For in this one I am sighing, because I long to put on, like a robe, my heavenly body, my future home,

For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,