Our Future after Death
1 For we know that if our earthly tent we live in 5:1 2Pt 1:13 is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, 5:1 Eph 6:9; Php 2:10 not made with hands. 5:1 Col 2:112 Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring 5:2 1Pt 2:2 to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 since, when we are clothed, 5:3 Other mss read when we have taken it off we will not be found naked. 5:3 Mt 25:36; Lk 10:304 Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality 5:4 Rm 7:24; 8:23; 1Co 15:26 may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.