5 Now the one who prepared us for this very thing is God, and God gave us the Spirit as a down payment for our home.
6 So we are always confident, because we know that while we are living in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord.
7 We live by faith and not by sight.
8 We are confident, and we would prefer to leave the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 So our goal is to be acceptable to him, whether we are at home or away from home.
10 We all must appear before Christ in court so that each person can be paid back for the things that were done while in the body, whether they were good or bad.
11 So we try to persuade people, since we know what it means to fear the Lord. We are well known by God, and I hope that in your heart we are well known by you as well.