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For we knowthatifourearthlyhouse of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a buildingofGod, an house not made with hands,eternalin the heavens.
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For*inthis we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with ourhousewhich is fromheaven:
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Ifso be that being clothed we shallnot be foundnaked.
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Forwe that arein this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, thatmortality might be swallowed upoflife.
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Now he that hath wroughtusfor the selfsame thingisGod,whoalso hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
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Thereforewe are alwaysconfident, knowingthat, whilst we are at homein the body, we are absentfrom the Lord: