2nd Corinthians 5: 1,6 we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with 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..