For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have knit me together with bones and sinews.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.
Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: