3. if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
4. For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5. Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
6. Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
7. for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8. We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9. Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
10. For we must all be revealed before the judgement seat of Messiah; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
12. For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
13. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
14. For the love of Messiah constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
15. He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.