For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, (A)but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also (B)has given us the Spirit as [a]a guarantee.

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:5 down payment, earnest

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