2 Corinthians 5:2-8

2For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our [immortal, eternal] celestial dwelling,

3so that by putting it on we will not be found naked.

4For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed [separated by death from the body], but to be clothed, so that what is mortal [the body] will be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection].

5Now He who has made us and prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the [Holy] Spirit as a pledge [a guarantee, a down payment on the fulfillment of His promise].

6So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

7for we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God’s promises]—

8we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.