Assurance of the Resurrection
1 For we know that if Job 4:19; 1 Cor. 15:47; 2 Cor. 4:7our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house Mark 14:58; Acts 7:48; Heb. 9:11, 24not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this Rom. 8:23; 2 Cor. 5:4we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, Rev. 3:18having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, 1 Cor. 15:53but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also Rom. 8:23; (2 Cor. 1:22); Eph. 1:14has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.