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For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
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if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
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Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
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So we are always confident, knowing that while 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, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.