Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Long for their pilgrimage to end
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. For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven, if indeed also having put it on we may not be found naked. read more.
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. And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit. 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.
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. And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit. 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.