II Corinthians 5:1,6 &8 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with earthly hands, eternal in the Heavens... Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord... We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord...