For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me 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, which 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 betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with the Messiah; which is far better: