2 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

mad with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst

we are at home the body, we are absent from the Lord;

We are confident, I say and willing rather to be absent from

body, and to be present with the Lord...