004:010 always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives. 004:011 For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives. 004:012 Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full enjoyment of Life. 004:013 But possessing the same Spirit of faith as he who wrote, "I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe, and therefore we speak. 004:014 For we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us and you to stand in His own presence. 004:015 For everything is for your sakes, in order that grace, being more richly bestowed because of the thanksgivings of the increased number, may more and more promote the glory of God. 004:016 Therefore we are not cowards. Nay, even though our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day. 004:017 For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory; 004:018 while we look not at things seen, but things unseen; for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal. 005:001 For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal. 005:002 For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven-- 005:003 if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed. 005:004 Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life. 005:005 And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss. 005:006 We have therefore a cheerful confidence. We know that while we are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord; 005:007 for we are living a life of faith, and not one of sight. 005:008 So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord. 005:009 And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.