Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight.
We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.