By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the ground. For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
My generation is plucked up and removed from me, like a shepherd’s tent; I have cut off my life like the weaver. He will cut me off from the threads; from day to night You will make an end of me.
For indeed, being in the tabernacle, we groan, having been weighted down, inas- much as we do not wish to put off the body, but the spiritual to be put on, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.
in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
For which cause I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.
But Christ having appeared as a High Priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,
For Christ did not enter into the Holy of Holies made by hands, antitypes of the true things, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,
Beloved ones, now we are the children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we shall be. But we know that if He is made visible to us, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.