2 Corinthians 5:1-7

Goodspeed(i) 1 For I know that if this earthly tent that I live in is taken down, God will provide me a building in heaven to live in, not built by human hands but eternal. 2 This makes me sigh with longing to put on my heavenly dwelling, 3 for if I do, I shall never find myself disembodied. 4 For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life. 5 It is God himself who has prepared me for this change, and he has given me the Spirit as his guaranty. 6 So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord 7 (for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)—