5. This is what God himself made us for. And he has given us the Spirit as the first payment to guarantee the life to come.
6. So we always have confidence. We know that while we live in this body, we are away from the Lord.
7. We live by what we believe will happen, not by what we can see.
8. So I say that we have confidence. And we really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.
9. Our only goal is to always please the Lord, whether we are living here in this body or there with him.
10. We must all stand before Christ to be judged. Everyone will get what they should. They will be paid for whatever they did—good or bad—when they lived in this earthly body.