1. For we know that when this tent we live in — our body here on earth — is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last for ever.
2. And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;
3. by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.
4. While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body, but that we want to have the heavenly one put on over us, so that what is mortal will be transformed by life.