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For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

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If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

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For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

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Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

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Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

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(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

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We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.