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In our present tent-like existence we sigh, since we long to put on the house we will have in heaven. After we have put it on,[a] we won’t be naked. While we are in this tent, we sigh. We feel distressed because we don’t want to take off the tent, but we do want to put on the eternal house. Then ⌞eternal⌟ life will put an end to our mortal existence.

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  1. 5:3 Some manuscripts and translations read “taken it off.”

Meanwhile we groan,(A) longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,(B) because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan(C) and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,(D) so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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