But now we groan in this tent. We want God to give us our heavenly home,
Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.
It is hard to choose between the two. I want to leave this life and be with Christ, which is much better,
What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?
But look! I tell you this secret: We will not all sleep in death, but we will all be changed.
You dressed me with skin and flesh; you sewed me together with bones and muscles.