¹⁸But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

 ¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

 ²⁰For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

 ²¹Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

 ²²Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Chapter 5

¹For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

 ²For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

 ³If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

 ⁴For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

 ⁵Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

 ⁶Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

 ⁷(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

 ⁸We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

 ⁹Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

 ¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.