2 Corinthians 5:1-11

Darby Translation

5 For we know that if our earthly tabernacle house be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

² For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which [is] from heaven;

³ if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

⁴ For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that [what is] mortal may be swallowed up by life.

⁵ Now he that has wrought us for this very thing [is] God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

⁶ Therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight;)

⁸ we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

⁹ Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

¹⁰ For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things [done] in the body, according to those he has done, whether [it be] good or evil.

¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.