And for this reason also, we groan, desiring to be clothed from above with our habitation from heaven.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves.
Unhappy man that I am, who will free me from this body of death?
and not only these, but also ourselves, since we hold the first-fruits of the Spirit. For we also groan within ourselves, anticipating our adoption as the sons of God, and the redemption of our body.
Behold, I tell you a mystery. Certainly, we shall all rise again, but we shall not all be transformed:
For I am constrained between the two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is the far better thing,