For 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. |
For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. |
For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. |
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. |
For while we are still in this tent, we groan under the burden and sigh deeply (weighed down, depressed, oppressed) – not that we want to put off the body (the clothing of the spirit), but rather that would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection]. |
For indeed, we being in this tent, are groaning, being weighed down, because we do not desire to be unclothed [divested of our mortal body] but clothed upon [invested with our heavenly body], in order that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by the life. |
So long as we are clothed in this temporary dwelling we have a painful longing, not because we want just to get rid of these “clothes” but because we want to know the full cover of the permanent. We want our transitory life to be absorbed into the life that is eternal. |
For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life. |
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