³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(A) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^(B)

⁸ We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.^(A)

²³ I am torn between the two: I desire to depart^(A) and be with Christ,^(B) which is better by far;

¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left^(A) will be caught up together with them in the clouds^(B) to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord^(C) forever.