Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
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The believer not only is well assured by faith that there is another and a happy life after this is ended, but he has good hope, through grace, of heaven as a dwelling-place, a resting-place, a hiding-place. In our Father's house there are many mansions, whose Builder and Maker is God.
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This thought runs through 2 Corinthians 5:6-10.