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For we know that if our earthly house, this tabernacle, were dissolved, we have a building of 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 about with our house which is from Heaven,
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that, being so clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we would be unclothed, but clothed about, that mortality might be swallowed up by life.
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Now He that hath wrought us for this selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the pledge 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;